ECONOMIC GLOBALISATION INDICATORS & AMNE DATAKoen De Backer

FDI Statistics Workshop, OECD

Paris, 20 March 2014

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(Economic) Globalisation

• Reallocation of productive resources: goods, services, capital, workforce, human capital, technology and knowledge…

• … often in Global Value Chains

• ELS: migration database EDU: education at a glance

• STI: R&D, patents, trademarks, international cooperation, doctoral students, foreign scholars, etc.

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Economic Globalisation Indicators 2010 (1)

Funds from abroad, 2007 (% of business enterprise R&D)

Firms in Europe with foreign collaboration in innovation, 2004-2006 (% of all firms)

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Economic Globalisation Indicators 2010 (2)

Share of internationally co-authored scientific articles, 2007

Student mobility in tertiary education, 2007(% of international students in tertiary enrolments

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The central role of MNEs in globalisation

• OECD AMNE database– Methodological framework: the OECD

Handbook on Economic Globalisation Indicators and Eurostat’s FATS Recommendations manual

– Based on the concept of control– Inward investment: structural Business

Statistics – Outward investment: surveys on direct

investment– Parent companies

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Description of the AMNE database

• 26 declaring countries

• 16 variables: turnover, value added, employment, personnel costs, trade, R&D…

• 2-digit level of detail for industries (ISIC Rev.4)

• Large number of partner countries

• National total data performance gaps between foreign affiliates and domestic firms

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OECD AMNE Database (1)

Share of national employment under foreign control, 2010

R&D intensity in the manufacturing sector, 2009

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OECD AMNE Database (2)

Ireland, electrical and optical equipment, 2009

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Domestic VA

Foreign VA

Largely stays in the host economy

GROSS EXPORTS DOMESTIC VA - DOMESTIC VA - LABOUR OPERATING DOMESTIC FIRMS FOREIGN MNEs COMPENSATION - SURPLUS -

FOREIGN MNEs FOREIGN MNEs

May (partially) leave the host economy