This article investigates the employment development of Czech-based firms in German ownership in the years around the … direct investment (FDI) raises the question whether under the conditions of a historically deep global downturn, Czech … years before the crisis, firms with German capital exhibited a noticeably more positive employment development. The results …

This paper examines how foreign-owned and domestically owned firms transform innovation into employment growth. The …-owned firms experience higher job losses than domestically owned firms. At the same time, employment- creating effects of product … innovation are larger for foreignowned firms. Together with employment-stimulating effects stemming from existing products, they …