Should trade unions appreciate foreign direct investment

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Skaksen, MY; Sorensen, JR
• 署名单位: University of Southern Denmark; Aarhus University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0022-1996
• DOI: 10.1016/S0022-1996(01)00101-5
• 发表日期: 2001
• 页码: 379-390
• 关键词: foreign direct investment; Multinational enterprise; Wage bargaining; trade union

摘要

It is often argued that FDI hurts workers in the home country because jobs are moved abroad. Contrary to that view, businessmen often argue that FDI benefits home workers because there will be an expansion in the firm. We show that both views may be corrects and whether home workers gain or lose on FDI depends on which kinds of activities the firm moves to the host country. If there is a big degree of substitutability (complementarity) between activities in the home country and activities in the host country, it is likely that the workers lose (gain) on FDI. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.