Labour Market Effects of European Foreign Investments
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The central goal of the project has been to examine the labour market effects of European outward and inward Foreign Direct Investments (FDI), focussing on five European countries: Great Britain, Ireland, Italy, Sweden and Spain. The Network of research is developing an analytical framework accounting for all the various links between FDI and the labour market. It has analysed empirically the sectoral and geographical distribution of European FDIs and has derived implicit labour demands. It has examined the impact of inward and outward FDIs on host and home economies using cross-country firm level panel data. A considerable effort has been made in constructing comparable harmonised firm level panel databases for the sample countries. On the basis of these data, it has been possible to control for firm specific factors, like the type of technology used by the firm, the skill structure of employment, the organisation of production and for issues concerning the geographic localisation of the investment. The final goal of this work is to evaluate policies at a national and European level that may enhance the positive effects of foreign investments on domestic employment. This includes the assessment of a wide range of policy tools: science and technology policy, employment policy, labour market regulations, foreign investment and competition policies and finally trade policy.
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