Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/157903 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
GLO Discussion Paper No. 68
Publisher: 
Global Labor Organization (GLO), Maastricht
Abstract: 
The main purpose of this study is to assess the impact of Brexit on the foreign direct investment (FDI) in the United Kingdom. As a novelty, compare to previous studies from the literature, the research focused on two proxies for FDI: FDI projects with the associated new and safeguarded jobs and FDI inflows as percent of GDP. Moreover, other methods were used to measure the Brexit impact on the FDI: a gravity model approach based on mixed-effects Poisson models and a counterfactual analysis based on differences-to-differences estimators. The main results indicated that the number of FDI projects might decrease after Brexit by 65% till 90%. A higher increase by 97% is expected to the number of new and safeguarded jobs. Even if FDI inflows in the UK significantly increased compared to the rest of OECD countries because of the EU membership, the UK should follow the model of Norway and Iceland after Brexit in order to avoid significant losses in the FDI inflows.
Subjects: 
Brexit
foreign direct investment
FDI projects
Poisson model
differences-in-differences estimator
JEL: 
C51
C53
F21
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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