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ABSTRACT:
A novel linked employer-employee data set documents that expanding multinational enterprises retain more domestic jobs than competitors without foreign expansion. In contrast to prior research, a propensity score estimator allows enterprise performance to vary with foreign direct investment (FDI) and shows that the foreign expansion itself is the dominant explanatory factor for reduced worker separation rates. Bounding, concomitant variable tests, and robustness checks rule out competing hypotheses. The finding is consistent with the idea that, given global factor price differences, a prevention of enterprises from outward FDI would lead to more domestic worker separations. FDI raises domestic-worker retention more pronouncedly among highly educated workers and for expansions to distant locations.

SUGGESTED CITATION:
Marc A. Muendler and Sascha O. Becker, "The Effect of FDI on Job Separation" (November 1, 2006). Department of Economics, UCSD. Paper 2006-11.
http://repositories.cdlib.org/ucsdecon/2006-11