Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/4071 
Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 2692
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper examines the link between multinational enterprises and employment growth at the plant-level. We investigate in detail the comparative response of multinationals and domestic firms to an economic crisis, using the empirical setting of a well defined case of economic slowdown in Chile as a natural experiment. In our empirical analysis we find that employment growth in manufacturing plants has been drastically reduced during the economic crisis. More importantly, we do not find evidence that multinationals react to the economic crisis differently than do domestic firms. Our findings hold in a number of robustness tests, in which we also investigate the role of access to finance. The results are in contrast to the idea that multinationals are less affected by an economic crisis and that they may be able to act as stabilizers in developing countries.
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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