TY  - JOUR
AU  - Blomstrom,Magnus
AU  - Fors,Gunnar
AU  - Lipsey,Robert E.
TI  - Foreign Direct Investment and Employment: Home Country Experience in the United States and Sweden
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 6205
PY  - 1997
Y2  - October 1997
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w6205
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w6205.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Magnus Blomstrom
European Institute of Japanese Studies
Stockholm School of Economics
Post Office Box 6501, Sveavagen 65
S-113 83 Stockholm
 SWEDEN
Tel: 46-8-7369265
Fax: 46-8-313017
E-Mail: magnus.blomstrom@gmail.com

Robert E. Lipsey
NBER
365 Fifth Avenue, Suite 5318
New York, NY 10016-4309
Tel: 212/817-7961
Fax: 212/817-1597
E-Mail: N/A user is deceased
AB  - We compare the relation between foreign affiliate production and parent employment in U.S. manufacturing multinationals with that in Swedish firms.  U.S. multinationals appear to have allocated some of their more labor intensive operations selling in world markets to affiliates in developing countries, reducing the labor intensity in their home production.  Swedish multinationals produce relatively little in developing countries and most of that has been for sale within host countries with import-substituting trade regimes.  The great majority of Swedish affiliate production is in high-income countries, the U.S. and Europe, and is associated with more employment, particularly blue-collar employment, in the parent companies.  The small Swedish-owned production that does take place in developing countries is also associated with more white-collar employment at home.  The effects on white-collar employment within the Swedish firms have grown smaller and weaker over time.
ER  -