Productivity and labour demand effects of inward and outward foreign direct investment on UK industry

Nigel Driffield; James H. Love; Karl Taylor

doi:10.1111/j.1467-9957.2008.02093.x

Productivity and labour demand effects of inward and outward foreign direct investment on UK industry

Nigel Driffield, James H. Love, Karl Taylor

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Abstract

We relate the technological and factor price determinants of inward and outward foreign direct investment (FDI) to its potential productivity and labour market effects on both host and home economies. This allows us to distinguish clearly between technology-sourcing and technologyexploiting FDI, and to identify FDI that is linked to labour cost differentials. We then empirically examine the effects of different types of FDI into and out of the UK on domestic (i.e. UK) productivity and on the demand for skilled and unskilled labour at the industry level.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	171-203
Number of pages	33
Journal	Manchester School
Volume	77
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9957.2008.02093.x
Publication status	Published - Mar 2009

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Keywords

inward foreign direct investment
outward foreign direct investment
potential productivity
labour market effects
economie
technology-sourcing
technology-exploiting

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