ABSTRACT

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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PART I Multinational firms, international production and home employment

part |2 pages

PART II Multinational firms and international trade: FDI and export, FDI and

chapter 3|5 pages

6. Conclusion

chapter 4|17 pages

Intra-firm trade and foreign direct investment: an empirical analysis of French firms

Se´verine Che´dor, Jean-Louis Mucchielli Isabelle Soubaya

chapter |5 pages

Appendix 1

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Part III MULTINATIONAL FIRMS, LINKAGES AND SPILLOVERS EFFECTS

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Part IV MULTINATIONAL FIRMS, STRUCTURE AND DIFFUSION OF TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION

chapter |20 pages

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS

Emmanuel Combe Etienne Pfister

chapter |2 pages

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