Multinationals and Plant Survival in Swedish Manufacturing

Firm Structure, Multinationals, and Manufacturing Plant Deaths

Plant shutdowns shape industry productivity, the dynamics of employment, and industrial restructuring. Plant closures account for more than half of gross job destruction in US manufacturing. This paper examines the effects of firm structure on US manufacturing plant closures. Plants belonging to multi-plant firms and those owned by US multinationals are less likely to exit. However, the superio...

Outward Investment, Employment and Wages in Swedish Multinationals

Decomposing Value Chains within Swedish Multinationals

Swedish Multinationals and Competition from High- and Low-Wage Locations

This study uses data on Swedish multinationals to estimate cross elasticities of labour demand in di¤erent locations. With a vertical decomposition of the ...rm’s activities, whether there is substitution or complementarity between employment in di¤erent parts of the ...rm will depend on whether wage changes lead to a relocation of activities or simply to changes in marginal costs and/or demand...

Skill Upgrading and Production Transfer within Swedish Multinationals

This paper studies the link between production transfer within Swedish-headquartered multinational enterprises (MNEs) and skill upgrading in Swedish manufacturing MNE parents in the 1990s. The analysis distinguishes between horizontal and vertical foreign direct investment (FDI). The increased employment share in the affiliates in non-OECD countries (vertical FDI) has a non-trivial, significant...