Multinational Firms and Impacts on Employment, Trade and Technology: New Perspectives for a New Century

by Robert E. Lipsey (Editor), Jean-Louis Mucchielli (Editor)

Overview

For decades governments, politicians, and trade unions have feared that firms investing abroad involved a loss of employment and a decline in wages for the home country, the implied assumption being that global production and consumption are somehow fixed. Similarly, research on multinational firms has tended to present them as having a number of a

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781134489756
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/13/2001
Series:	Routledge Studies in Global Competition
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	288
File size:	840 KB

About the Author

Lipsey, Robert E. ; Mucchielli, Jean-Louis

Table of Contents

Part I: Multinational Firms, International Production and Home Employment1. Foreign Production by US Firms and Parent Firm EmploymentPart II: Multinational Firms and International Trade: FDI and Export, FDI and Intra-Firm Trade2. Relationships between Trade and FDI Flows within Two Panels of US and French Industries3. Intra-Firm Trade and Foreign Direct Investment: an Empirical Analysis of French Firms4. Foreign Investment Transactions and International Trade Linkages5. Intra-Firm Trade and Market StructurePart III: Multinational Firms, Linkages and Spillover Effects6. Linkages, Multinationals and Industrial Development7. Local Procurement by Japanese Manufacturing AffiliatesPart IV: Multinational Firms, Structure and Diffusion of Technology and Innovation: How it is Structured in the Context of Globalization8. The Effectiveness of Intellectual Property Rights: an Exploration of French Survey Data9. The Innovative Activities of Multinational Firms in Italy10. Innovative Strategies and Know-How Flows in International Companies: Some Evidence from Belgian Manufacturing11. Foreign Direct Investment as Technology Sourcing