Inward Foreign Direct Investment and Racial Employment Patterns in US Manufacturing

Inward Foreign Direct Investment and Inter-Industry Wage Differentials In U.S. Manufacturing Industries

The impact of inward foreign direct investment on the nature and intensity of Chinese manufacturing exports

Using data for the period 1983-2002, this study examines the relationship between inward foreign direct investment (FDI) and export performance in China. The results indicate that FDI promotes exports by foreign as well as domestically-owned firms, and that this effect is strongest for labour-intensive industries. This impact, however, does not depend on the country of origin of the investor. T...

The Effects of Trade Integration, Globalization and Foreign Direct Investments on Employment in Iranian Manufacturing Sector

This paper focuses on two major aspects of globalization: international trade and FDI and their impacts on manufacturing employment in Iran and study whether foreign direct investment and trade expansion with Asian and European partner played any role in shaping the Iranian manufacturing employment structure. This study incorporates globalization (KOF index), trade integration and FDI into a si...

Foreign direct investment and competitiveness in the Romanian manufacturing

The objective of the analysis is the static (the database refers exclusively to year 1998) evaluation of the competitiveness of Romanian manufacturing, depending on the ownership-type. A ternary ownership-type structure is considered: the prevailing foreign-owned capital, the prevailing Romanian private capital and the prevailing state capital. The place, the share, the performance and the impa...

Evolutionary understanding of corporate foreign investment behaviour: US foreign direct investment in Europe

Evolutionary understanding of behaviour of firms is gradually becoming more accepted in a variety of disciplines such as economics, management and organization. Contributing to a multidisciplinary understanding of strategic behaviour, this paper analyzes foreign direct investment strategies of US firms in Europe since the second world war. Taking routinized investment behaviour, satisficing str...