Since the nineties, China, India and Turkey have followed different paths of integration in the international division of labor. China has become an assembly country, strongly integrated in the international segmentation of production processes in Asia. Most of China's imports of high technology...

In this paper, we analyse the "direct investment v. export" decision of a multinational firm in competition with a potential entrant in a host country. We consider that there exists an asymmetry between the skills of workers from the host country and those of workers from the multinational's...