Arbeitspapier

Location choice and employment decisions: a comparison of German and Swedish multinationals

Using data for German and Swedish multinational enterprises (MNEs), this paper assesses international employment patterns. It analyzes determinants of location choice and the degree of substitutability of labor across locations. Countries with highly skilled labor forces attract German MNEs, but we nd no such evidence for Swedish MNEs. This is consistent with the hypothesis that German MNEs locate production stages intensive in high-skilled labor abroad. In MNEs from either country, af liate employment tends to substitute for employment at the parent rm. At the margin, substitutability is the strongest with respect to af liate employment in Western Europe. A one percent larger wage gap between Germany and locations in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) is estimated to be associated with 900 fewer jobs in German parents and 5,000 more jobs in af liates located in CEE. A one percent larger wage gap between Sweden and CEE is estimated to be associated with 140 fewer jobs in Swedish parents and 260 more jobs in af liates located in CEE.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Discussion Paper Series 1 ; No. 2005,08

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
Multinational Firms; International Business
Labor Demand
International Investment; Long-term Capital Movements
Thema
Multinational enterprises
location choice
multinomial choice
labor demand
translog cost function
Multinationales Unternehmen
Standortwahl
Arbeitsnachfrage
Arbeitskosten
Vergleich
Schweden
Deutschland

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Becker, Sascha O.
Ekholm, Karolina
Jäckle, Robert
Mündler, Marc-Andreas
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Deutsche Bundesbank
(wo)
Frankfurt a. M.
(wann)
2005

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Becker, Sascha O.
  • Ekholm, Karolina
  • Jäckle, Robert
  • Mündler, Marc-Andreas
  • Deutsche Bundesbank

Entstanden

  • 2005

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