Foreign Direct Investment in Central and Eastern Europe: Employment Effects in the EU

Henrik Braconier and Karolina Ekholm ()
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Henrik Braconier: IUI, Stockholm

No 161, Development Working Papers from Centro Studi Luca d'Agliano, University of Milano

Abstract: We use firm-level data on Swedish multinationals to analyze how the recent expansion of affiliate employment in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) has affected affiliate employment elsewhere. According to our results, employment in affiliates located in other low-wage countries in Europe decreased substantially as a consequence of the expansion in CEE. Furthermore, affiliate activities in these countries have become more sensitive to changes in labor costs as firms have set up production in CEE. We find that employment in Sweden and other high-wage European countries has also been affected, but these effects seem to be much smaller.

Keywords: Foreign Direct Investment; multinational enterprises; Central and Eastern Europe (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002-05-01
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