Outward FDI and Local Employment Growth in Italy

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Using several data sources, we assess the impact of Italy's outward foreign direct investment (FDI) on local employment growth between 1996 and 2001 for 12 manufacturing industries and 103 administrative provinces. Our main result is that, controlling for the local industrial structure and area fixed effects, FDI is associated with faster local employment growth, relatively to the national industry average. We also find that employment in small plants is not negatively influenced by higher levels of FDI. Our findings do not support therefore the idea that FDI is detrimental to localemployment growth in the home country.

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• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: Quaderni - Working Paper DSE ; No. 572

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft
• Thema: Auslandsinvestition ; Beschäftigungseffekt ; Regionaler Arbeitsmarkt ; Agglomerationseffekt ; Italien

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Federico, Stefano ; Minerva, Gaetano Alfredo
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche (DSE)
• (wo): Bologna
• (wann): 2006

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: doi:10.6092/unibo/amsacta/4714
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/159413