This paper analyzes the determinants and effects of firm-level FDI flows on the basis of German micro-level data …. Concering the determinants of FDI, I differentiate between different target regions and motivations for FDI (market seeking …/horizontal FDI versus cost reducing/vertical FDI). The main result is that most firms engage in FDI because of market access. Further …

multinational firm sets up a new affliate. But a majority of foreign direct investment (FDI) projects takes the form of mergers and … acquisitions (M&A). This kind of inward FDI is much more critically debated. The focal point of this paper is the development of … confrms this finding and detects neither positive nor negative significant effects of foreign takeovers. -- M&A ; inward FDI …

, technology spillovers, and changes in factor prices. We account for both inward and outward FDI, and differentiate these two …We analyse how foreign direct investment (FDI) affects employment security using administrative micro data for German … employees. FDI intensity is measured at the industry level, which enables us to take into account the sum of direct effects at …

. -- internationalisation ; FDI ; outsourcing offshore ; employment ; labour market …

This paper examines the effect of FDI on employment in the Chinese manufacturing sector. As one of the world's largest … recipients of FDI, China has arguably benefited from foreign multinational enterprises in various respects. However, one of the … main challenges for China, and other developing countries, is job-creation, and the effect of FDI on employment is …

The current extensive literature on the home-country employment effect of FDI focuses almost exclusively on the case of … the firms that have invested abroad. The results indicate that in general, outward FDI had a positive impact on the home …