Outward FDI does not necessarily cost domestic employment of MNEs at home: Evidence from Japanese MNEs

In Hyeock Lee, Shige Makino and Eunsuk Hong

No 148, Columbia FDI Perspectives from Columbia University, Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI)

Abstract: Outward FDI does not necessarily reduce domestic employment – it often boosts it. Evidence from Japanese MNEs show that they increase domestic employment in Japan when they conduct market-seeking, strategic asset-seeking, or efficiency-seeking FDI to expand domestic operations into foreign countries, and hence enhance their competitive advantages.

Date: 2015
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