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Title
Do inward investors achieve their job targets?
Type
Statistical Profile
Status
Complete
Summary

The paper utilizes data for the North-East England over the period 1985-98 to examine if foreign-owned start-up plants achieve their job targets. Different models are utilized that each shed light on the relationship between the jobs promised by plants in their initial investment and their actual employment attained. At the mean it finds that the plants achieve their job targets, but that larger plants fall someway short. It is argued that these plants may deliberately overstate the number of jobs, and that the employment-creation claims of inward investors and economic development agencies should be treated with skepticism.

Questions

Do inward investors create the wealth, jobs and business that they suggest they will?

Primary Category
Business and enterprise
Time Focus
1985 - 1998
Due Date
01/07/2006
Organisation
University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Contact Name
Jonathan Jones
Contact Email
j.w.jones@ncl.ac.uk
Contact Phone
(0191) 222 6834
Last Updated
21/07/2010

Secondary Categories

Business and enterprise, More enterprises, Sectors, Smarter enterprises

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