Publication Date
10-21-2021
Series
Upjohn Institute working paper ; 21-354
DOI
10.17848/wp21-354
Abstract
In this paper, I analyze the local labor market consequences of multinational firms reallocating employees across their affiliates in response to antitax avoidance policies. I leverage the introduction of a worldwide debt cap in 2010 in the United Kingdom as a quasi-natural experiment that limited one of the forms of profit shifting—debt shifting—for a group of multinational corporations (MNCs). Multinationals affected by the reform reallocated their employees from the United Kingdom to foreign locations. This affected London-based service sector firms the most. I show that this led to a reduction in the number of jobs available in regions exposed to the reform in the United Kingdom. In foreign countries, the initial reallocation of labor across firms resulted in a much larger expansion of the affected local labor markets. These results suggest that a reallocation of labor across firms generates asymmetries in how negative and positive firm-level shocks are amplified through regional markets.
Issue Date
October 2021
Note
Upjohn project #58158
Subject Areas
LABOR MARKET ISSUES; INTERNATIONAL ISSUES
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Bilicka, Katarzyna. 2021. "Labor Market Consequences of Antitax Avoidance Policies." Upjohn Institute Working Paper 21-354. Kalamazoo, MI: W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research. https://doi.org/10.17848/wp21-354