Sascha O. Becker

The Effect of FDI on Job Security

Abstract Novel linked employer-employee data for multinational enterprises and their global workforces show that multinational enterprises that expand abroad retain more domestic jobs than competitors without foreign expansions. Propensity-score estimation demonstrates that the foreign expansion itself is a dominant explanatory factor for reduced worker separation rates. Bounding, concomitant variable tests, and further robustness checks show competing hypotheses to be less plausible. The finding is consistent with the hypothesis that, given global wage differences, a prevention of enterprises from outward FDI would lead to more domestic job losses. FDI raises domestic-worker retention more pronouncedly among highly educated workers.

Mikrodaten im ifo Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung – Bestand, Verwendung und Zugang

ZusammenfassungDas ifo Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung in München führt seit seiner Gründungn im Jahr 1949 regelmäßige Unternehmensbefragungen durch. Bisher bestand kein institutionalisiertern Datenzugang zu den Mikrodaten für Forscher außerhalb des Institutes. Die Mikrodaten werden nunmehrn im ifo Datapool zusammengefasst. Dieser enthält neben externenn Daten umfangreiche Datensätze der vier Standardumfragen des ifo Institutes: des Konjunkturtests, desn Investitionstests, des Innovationstests und des World Economic Survey. In diesem Beitrag werden Umfang,n Bestand, Dokumentation und Zugang zum neuen ifo Datapool beschrieben.n AbstractThe Ifo Institute for Economic Research has been conducting regular business surveys since its foundationn in 1949. Until now there was no institutionalized data access to the micro data for external researchers.n The micro data are now being stored in the ifo Datapool. Besides externaln data, the ifo Datapool contains rich data sets of the four standard surveysn of the institute: the business cycle test, the investment test, the innovation test, and the World Economicn Survey. In this paper the coverage, documentation and access to the ifo Datapooln is described.n