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Please dont go! Understanding the host-country factors affecting relocation choices to minimize job losses

In: Research Handbook on Foreign Exit, Relocation and Re-entry

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  • Albachiara Boffelli
  • Paolo Barbieri
  • Stefano Elia
  • Luciano Fratocchi
  • Matteo Kalchschmidt
  • Daniele Sirtori
  • Maddalena Spreafico

Abstract

Manufacturing offshoring has been a strategy widely implemented by manufacturing firms to gain a competitive advantage. More recently, firms have begun to modify their internationalization strategies by choosing to undertake Relocations of Second Degree (RSD) initiatives, i.e. a change of location with respect to the First Host Country either towards a Second Host Country (re-internationalization) or towards the Home Country of the foreign firm (de-internationalization). This research aims to analyze how the intensity of RSDs, expressed in terms of jobs lost in the First Host Country, is affected by different Host Country-specific Factors. By relying on data from the European Restructuring Monitor, including 281 observations of intra-EU relocations that occurred between 2002 and 2018, we highlight that the job reduction occurs less intensively if Country B's business environment is characterized by a high degree of R&D expenditures, skilled workforce and flexible labour market. Similarly, when host countries present a decreasing level of wages and a higher percentage of immigrants compared to emigrants, fewer jobs are relocated. Finally, in high-tech industries, the presence of Industry 4.0 policies in the First Host Country plays a relevant role in lightening the impact of workforce relocations.

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  • Albachiara Boffelli & Paolo Barbieri & Stefano Elia & Luciano Fratocchi & Matteo Kalchschmidt & Daniele Sirtori & Maddalena Spreafico, 2022. "Please dont go! Understanding the host-country factors affecting relocation choices to minimize job losses," Chapters, in: Jorma Larimo & Pratik Arte & Carlos M.P. Sousa & Pervez N. Ghauri & José Mata (ed.), Research Handbook on Foreign Exit, Relocation and Re-entry, chapter 11, pages 235-258, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    • Handle: RePEc:elg:eechap:20749_11
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