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
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
PART I Multinational firms, international production and home employment
chapter 2|17 pages
Foreign direct investment and employment: home country experience in Italy
part |2 pages
PART II Multinational firms and international trade: FDI and export, FDI and
chapter 4|17 pages
Intra-firm trade and foreign direct investment: an empirical analysis of French firms
part |2 pages
Part III MULTINATIONAL FIRMS, LINKAGES AND SPILLOVERS EFFECTS
part |2 pages
Part IV MULTINATIONAL FIRMS, STRUCTURE AND DIFFUSION OF TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION