It matters where you go. Outward foreign direct investment and multinational employment growth at home

Journal of Development Economics

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 301-309

  Debaere, Peter ^a   Lee, Hongshik ^b   Lee, Joonhyung ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b Korea University   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Foreign direct investment; Labor demand; Location choice; Multinationals

Indexed keywords

EMPLOYMENT; ESTIMATION METHOD; FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT; GROWTH RATE; INDUSTRIAL INVESTMENT; INVESTMENT INCENTIVE; INVESTMENT LOCATION; MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISE;

EID: 70350759655     PISSN: 03043878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2009.07.002     Document Type: Article

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