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Fears that production abroad would cause home country exports and employment to fall have not been confirmed by evidence. Multinational operations have led to a shift by parent firms in the United States toward more capital- intensive and skill- intensive domestic production. However, that type...
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The purpose of this paper is to examine the relations among characteristics of U.S. firms, their tendency to invest abroad, and their choice of production locations. The larger the firm, and the higher its profitability, capital intensity, technological Intensity, and the skill level ofits labor...
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direct investment by U.S. firms and the export trade of the United States, a subject of bitter controversy for at least the …
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The relationship between direct investment and trade has always been recognized as one of the most difficult aspects of the study of multinational companies and their impact on their own countries and their affiliates' host countries. We cannot solve the fundamental dilemma of the inability to...
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Despite the persistent fears that production abroad by U.S. multinationals reduces employment at home, there has, in fact, been almost no aggregate shift of production or employment to foreign countries. Some continuing shifts to foreign locations by U.S. manufacturing firms have been largely...
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intensity. Affiliates that export are more sensitive to these factors in their choice of factor proportions than affiliates that …
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Weak institutions ought to deter foreign direction investment (FDI), and mass media stories highlight China …'s institutional deficiencies, yet China is now one of the world's largest FDI destinations. This incongruity characterizes China …'s paradoxical growth. Cross-country regressions show that China's FDI inflow is not exceptionally large, given the quality of its …
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