FDI and onshore task composition: evidence from German firms with affiliates in the Czech Republic

Journal for Labour Market Research

Original Article

Konstantin Koerner¹  Mathilde Le Moigne² 

[1]Institute for Employment Research, Nuremberg, Germany

[2]Princeton University, Princeton, USA

[3]University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

关键词: FDI;    Tasks;    Trade;    Offshorability;    Central and Eastern Europe;    Germany;    F16;    F66;    J24;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s12651-023-00346-7

 received in 2023-01-04, accepted in 2023-06-04,  发布年份 2023

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

How does a firm’s foreign direct investment (FDI) in a low-wage country change its onshore task demand in a high-wage country? Is the shift more intensive for jobs that the literature has designated offshorable? We address these questions using a matched difference-in-differences (DiD) approach with data on German firms that have similar propensities to conduct FDI in the Czech Republic. Our novel matching procedure draws on post-lasso logit estimates and shows that high task intensities of managing, administration, and labor legislation play a major role in firms’ engagement in international expansion. The outcomes of the DiD estimation show that after acquiring a foreign affiliate, multinational enterprises (MNEs) increase the intensities of their activities typical of headquarters such as managing, analyzing, and negotiating relative to the corresponding task intensities among non-MNEs. We also find sector-specific decreases, such as a reduction in typical production tasks (monitoring, producing, measuring) in manufacturing MNEs or typical service tasks (informing, medical, repairing) in service MNEs.

【 授权许可】

CC BY   
© Institute for Employment Research/ Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) 2023

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