Do Multinational Enterprises Relocate Employment to Low Wage Regions? Evidence from European Multinationals

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dc.contributor.authorKonings, Jozef
dc.contributor.authorMurphy, Alan
dc.date.accessioned2016-11-18T08:41:46Z
dc.date.available2016-11-18T08:41:46Z
dc.date.issued2005-03
dc.description.abstractThis paper analyses the employment behavior of multinational enterprises (MNEs) in Europe. To this end we use a unique firm level panel data set of more than 1,000 European multinational parent enterprises and their affiliates. The affiliates are located either in the European Union divided into (North, South), Central and Eastern Europe or both. We find that for parent firms operating in the manufacturing sector the elasticity of parent employment with respect to North EU affiliates’ labour costs is positive and statistically significant, ranging from 0.03 to 0.08, depending on the specification considered. This implies employment substitution between parents and their North EU based affiliates takes place in response to wage cost differentials between the parent and its North EU based affiliates. This substitution effect becomes stronger when affiliates are operating in a different sector than their parent firm. However, we find no evidence for such substitution effects between parent employment and its affiliates that are located in low wage regions in the EU and in Central and Eastern Europe. Furthermore, substitution effects are absent for parent firms operating in the non-manufacturing sector. Our results suggest that on average during the period of this study competition from low wage countries in Central and Eastern Europe and the South of the EU did not contribute to a relocation of domestic jobs to these low wage regions.ru_RU
dc.identifier.citationKonings Jozef, Murphy Alan, 2005, Central Bank and Financial Services Authority of Ireland; Do Multinational Enterprises Relocate Employment to Low Wage Regions? Evidence from European Multinationals. http://nur.nu.edu.kz/handle/123456789/1886ru_RU
dc.identifier.urihttp://nur.nu.edu.kz/handle/123456789/1886
dc.language.isoenru_RU
dc.publisherCentral Bank and Financial Services Authority of Irelandru_RU
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/*
dc.subjectrelocationru_RU
dc.subjectmultinational enterprisesru_RU
dc.subjectlabour demandru_RU
dc.subjectResearch Subject Categories::SOCIAL SCIENCES::Business and economicsru_RU
dc.titleDo Multinational Enterprises Relocate Employment to Low Wage Regions? Evidence from European Multinationalsru_RU
dc.title.alternativeEconomic Analysis and Research Departmentru_RU
dc.typeWorking Paperru_RU

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