flexibility is mainly driven by movers and short tenure workers. The cross-country comparison suggests that the relatively high …

There are significant differences in the dynamics of employment over the business cycle between young and old …. We interpret these differences as reflecting greater organizational flexibility at young plants due to the changing … plants' organizational flexibility allows the model to reproduce their distinct cyclical characteristics. Previous empirical …

.S. multinationals in China. In this paper, we seek to correct four common misunderstandings by providing a statistical portrait of …

first is the standard, direct productivity effect that is associated with the change in future output. The second is the …

implications of Renminbi (RMB) real exchange rate appreciation for adjustments in employment and wage rates. We stress differences … real exchange rate appreciation would likely have pronounced effects on both net employment and wage rates. A 10% RMB … appreciation would likely cause a net employment decline in Chinese manufacturing industries of between 4.1% and 5.3%, and a wage …

Base in Europe, would apportion a firm's worldwide profits using formulas based on the location of employment, capital or … income, since employment and other factors on which they are based do a very poor job of explaining a firm's profits. For … example, the magnitude of property, employment and sales explains less than 22 percent of the variation in profits between …

, Japanese firms resembled U.S. multinationals. A Japanese parent's employment, given the level of its production, tends to be … level. This relationship is similar to that found for Swedish and U.S. multinationals in parallel studies. A Japanese parent …'s worldwide exports tend to be larger, relative to its output, the larger the firm's overseas production. In this respect also …

We compare the relation between foreign affiliate production and parent employment in U.S. manufacturing multinationals … with that in Swedish firms. U.S. multinationals appear to have allocated some of their more labor intensive operations … multinationals produce relatively little in developing countries and most of that has been for sale within host countries with import …