Employment dynamics in foreign and domestic plants: Evidence from Irish manufacturing

Holger Görg and Eric Strobl ()

International Review of Applied Economics, 2005, vol. 19, issue 2, 163-178

Abstract: In this paper we investigate the driving factors behind the diverse employment performances of indigenous and foreign-owned (multinational) plants in Ireland. Examining aggregate job creation and job destruction rates we find that the net gain of the foreign sector in Irish manufacturing employment was due to a considerably lower rate of job destruction and a slightly higher job creation rate. An econometric investigation into the determinants of net employment growth at the plant level lends further credence to the argument that foreign plants performed better than domestic plants. Even after controlling for a number of plant and sector specific effects, multinationals experienced greater net employment growth rates than their indigenous counterparts.

Keywords: Employment adjustment; job flows; multinational companies; JEL Classification: F23; L60; J63 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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