During the recent period, many countries compete with each other to attract foreign investment. When MNCs invest in a host country, it is assumed that a part of their technology spills to the host country firms. But empirical studies on spillover effects of FDI have failed to find robust...

ILO pub. Working paper on a comparison of employment effects of direct foreign investment in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand - outlines investment by industry, country origin, etc., examines the industrialization and employment creation potential, wages, etc....

ILO pub. Working paper on employment effects of multinational enterprises in the UK - presents some features of foreign investment in the UK, finds higher employment records in foreign and British based multinationals than in domestic firms, and discusses export, financing and manufacturing...

ILO pub. Working paper on decision making in multinational enterprise subsidiaries (foreign enterprises) in Japan - shows direct foreign investment trends 1950-1983, distribution by industry and size of enterprise, and number of top management expatriate workers; analyses decision making...

Purpose – There has been a period of slow but a steady increase in wage inequality in the Indian manufacturing sector since the mid-1980s, which has gone hand-in-hand with an increase in the relative employment of skilled workers across all industries in the same period. The purpose of this...

This paper analyses the impact of the Indian reforms of the early 1990s on exports and employment by using indicators of competitiveness and comparative advantage. These indicators are unit cost ratios, which differ by using domestic prices, international or export prices and shadow prices. They...