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Foreign Production by U.S. Firms and Parent Firm Employment

Lipsey, Robert E. - 1999

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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Factor Prices and Factor Substitution in U.S. Firms' Manufacturing Affiliates Abroad

Borga, Maria - 2004

intensity. Affiliates that export are more sensitive to these factors in their choice of factor proportions than affiliates that …

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Outward FDI and Parent Exports and Employment : Japan, the United States, and Sweden

Lipsey, Robert E. - 2000

Within Japanese multinational firms, parent exports from Japan to a foreign region are positively related to production in that region by affiliates of that parent, given the parent's home production in Japan and the region's size and income level. This relationship is similar to that found for...

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Defining and Measuring the Location of FDI Output

Lipsey, Robert E. - 2007

The standard measures of flows and stocks of FDI view FDI as a financial flow and its accumulation as a stock, but most uses of FDI data require measures of employment, payrolls, capital inputs, and output from FDI. Judging by data for the United States, the flow and stock data provide rough...

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Foreign Firms and Indonesian Manufacturing Wages : An Analysis With Panel Data

Lipsey, Robert E. - 2003

Wages in domestically- owned Indonesian manufacturing plants taken over by foreign firms increased sharply between the year before takeover and two years after takeover, relative to plants remaining in domestic ownership. Blue- collar wage levels in these plants had been less than 10 per cent...

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Foreign Direct Investment and Wages in Indonesian Manufacturing

Lipsey, Robert E. - 2001

This paper asks two types of questions. One is about the behavior of foreign-owned firms in Indonesian labor markets and the other is about the effect of the presence of foreign-owned firms on Indonesian wages. We ask first whether foreign-owned plants pay a higher price for labor, that is, more...

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Foreign Ownership and Wages in the United States, 1987 - 1992

Feliciano, Zadia - 1999

Foreign-owned establishments in the United States pay higher wages, on average, than domestically-owned establishments. Much of the difference is related to industry composition, but there are also differences within industries within states, 5-7 percent in manufacturing and 9-10 percent in...

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Foreign-Owned Firms and U.S. Wages

Lipsey, Robert E. - 1994

Foreign-owned establishments in the United States pay higher wages, on average, than domestically-owned establishments. The foreign-owned establishments tend to be in higher-wage industries and also to pay higher wages within industries. They tend to locate in lower-wage states, but to pay more...

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U.S.-Owned Affiliates and Host-Country Exports

Lipsey, Robert E. - 1982

U.S.-owned manufacturing affiliates in foreign countries tended to become more export-oriented between 1966 and 1977 … affiliate activities in almost all cases. The most export-oriented were subsidiaries in machinery industries in Southeast Asia …, however, and high rates of affiliate export growth were associated with rapid growth of host country GDP and exports …

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Affiliate Activity in Japanese and U.S. Multinationals and Japanese Exports, 1986-1995

Lipsey, Robert E. - 2001

. First, the relationships between Japanese export levels and employment in foreign affiliates of Japanese MNCs are analyzed …, the paper examines the effects of the presence of affiliates of U.S. MNCs on Japanese export levels. And third, it …

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