US multinationals and Latin American manufacturing employment absorption☆
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This paper is part of a CIEPLAN research project on ‘The role of multinational corporations in the Latin American manufacturing sector’, supported by the International Economic Order Program of the Ford Foundation. The authors wish to thank René Cortázar, Ernesto Fontaine, Hugo Lavados, Robert Lipsey, Joe Ramos, Paul Rosenstein-Rodan, Daniel Schydlowsky, and colleagues of CIEPLAN and PREALC for their helpful comments. We also thank Robert E. Lipsey from the National Bureau of Economic Research and Arnold Gilbert of the US Department of Commerce, for providing access to the basic data used in this research. Patricio Meller is a research economist from CIEPLAN (Santiago, Chile) and a Visiting Associate Professor at Boston University. Alejandra Mizala is a research economist from CIEPLAN.