While the recent increase in foreign direct investment (FDI) to African countries is a welcome development, the … the impact of FDI on development is through its effects on domestic factor markets, especially domestic investment and … employment. In this context, this study analyses the two-way linkages between FDI and domestic investment in Sub-Saharan Africa …

liberalization fostered not only trade but also inward investment, confirming that trade and FDI toward developing countries have …Globalization is not only about the rise of trade, FDI, and migration. It is also about the changing linkages among …, trade policies and the stock of FDI have a positive impact on the incentives to invest in education. This set of findings …

relationship between trade, FDI and labor markets. We do so under the following (not mutually exclusive) headings: (1) slicing … empirical work covering the labor market effects of trade and FDI. Finally, we identify and summarize the existing research gaps …

foreign investment operations are small, and almost insignificant in their impact on the local environment. An important …, employment growth. For a dataset covering four diverse emerging economies, we find that wholly-owned FDI operations have higher …

This document examines foreign direct investment (FDI) when multinationals and labour unions bargain over labour …-to-manage bargaining predicts higher returns for FDI than does non-unionization or efficient bargaining. This advantage is further … employment, the ruling elite reaps the surplus of FDI through taxation or regulation. In the absence of credible contracts …

and vertical FDI. Secondly, after establishing the effects that inward investment has on wage inequality, we then analyse …This paper extends the existing literature on FDI and wage inequality. We do this in two ways. Firstly, we incorporate … more precise measures of inward investment into the model, by allowing for differences in the effects between horizontal …