Multinational Firms and Impacts on Employment, Trade and Technology (eBook, PDF)

New Perspectives for a New Century
Redaktion: Lipsey, Robert E.; Mucchielli, Jean-Louis

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Dezember 2001
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134489763
• Artikelnr.: 42641688

Autorenporträt

Lipsey, Robert E. ; Mucchielli, Jean-Louis

Inhaltsangabe

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