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Understanding the economic effects of foreign multinational corporations (MNCs) is a priority for academics, policymakers and business professionals alike. In this volume, a number of international economists use factory-level data to analyze the effects of MNCs on wages, productivity and exports in Indonesia and Thailand, in unprecedented detail. KEIKO ITO Associate Professor, Faculty of Economics, Senshu University, Japan ROBERT E. LIPSEY Director, New York Office, National Bureau of Economic Research, USA ATSUKO MATSUOKA-MOVSHUK Consultant, Toyama, Japan OLEKSANDAR MOVSHUK Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Toyama, Japan SADAYUKI TAKII Research Associate Professor, International Centre for the Study of East Asian Development, and Visiting Associate Professor, Graduate School of Economics, Kyushu University, Japan MASARU UMEMOTO Research Assistant Professor, International Centre for the Study of East Asian Development, Japan List of Tables and Figures Foreword Contributors PART 1: INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW The Issues; E.D.Ramstetter & F.Sjholm PART 2: WAGE DIFFERENTIALS AND SPILLOVERS Foreign MNCs and Wages in Indonesia; R.E.Lipsey & F.Sjholm Multinational Corporations and Wages in Thai Manufacturing; O.Movshuk & A.Matsuoka-Movshuk PART 3: PRODUCTIVITY DIFFERENTIALS AND SPILLOVERS Productivity Differentials and Spillovers in Indonesian Manufacturing; S.Takii Are Productivity Differentials Important in Thai Manufacturing?; E.D.Ramstetter Foreign Ownership and Productivity in the Indonesian and Thai Automobile Industries; K.Ito PART 4: EXPORTS AND FOREIGN OWNERSHIP Multinational Companies amd Exports in Indonesian Manufacturing; F.Sjholm & S.Takii Exports and Foreign Ownership in Thai Manufacturing; E.D.Ramstetter & M.Umemoto Index
