the employment contraction during the crisis, but surviving foreign firms experience lower employment reductions than …This paper examines the comparative response of multinationals and domestic firms to an economic crisis, using the … empirical setting of a well defined case of economic slowdown in Chile. We find that employment in manufacturing plants has been …

additional employment is created over and above the level that would have prevailed in the absence of grant payments. We also … find differences in the employment response to subsidies between domestic and foreign-owned plants, with the former …

approach, thus creating a novel dataset of firms with their assigned SEZ status. To overcome the selection bias we employ … conditional on controlling for initial selection, SEZs induced no further productivity gains for within SEZ firms, on average …. This is predominantly driven by relatively less productive firms, whereas more productive firms experienced significant …

important impetus to plant survival and employment growth. We also discover some differences in terms of the effectiveness of … grants between foreign multinationals and domestic plants. Specifically, while grants have helped to stimulate employment …

additional employment is created over and above the level that would have prevailed in the absence of grant payments. We also … find differences in the employment response to subsidies between domestic and foreign-owned plants, with the former …

The dissertation centers on the following key issues. First, what are the impacts of trade liberalization on employment … and wages in Vietnamese manufacturing? Second, what determines productivity in Vietnamese manufacturing: the roles of … of employment and wage responses and firm productive performance. …