Publication

Oct 2002

This paper discusses to the mechanism through which globalization increases individual economic insecurity, using the framework of labor economics. The authors argue that foreign direct investment by multinational enterprises generates worker insecurity as it increases firm's elasticity of demand for labor.

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Author Kenneth Scheve, Matthew J Slaughter
Series Leitner Program Working Papers
Issue 11
Publisher Leitner Program in International & Comparative Political Economy
Copyright © 2002 Leitner Program
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