This study provides a more complete picture of the effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) in Australia by analyzing its impact on employment growth, wage growth, labor productivity growth, and industry concentration. Previous studies had only looked at some of these factors. The results found impacts in all areas and aligned with international studies on productivity and concentration, but not with Australian or international research on employment and wages. This contributes new knowledge on the wider range of FDI consequences than previously understood.

1. Comparing these results with previous econometric studies analysing the consequences of FDI in Australia shows that
FDI has a wider range of consequences than previously assumed. It has been shown in this study that employment
growth, wage growth, labour productivity growth and industry concentration were affected by Australian FDI. None of
the previous studies has analysed all the consequences investigated in this study, so in this study an important
contribution has been made by providing a more complete picture of FDI in Australian. Moreover, the study is based on
more recent and previously unexplored datasets. Overall, the results on labour productivity growth and industry
concentration were more in line with international studies than with other Australian results, while the effects on
employment growth and wage growth could not be supported by previous Australian or international studies.

2. Comparing these results with previous econometric studies
analysing the consequences of FDI in Australia shows that FDI has
a wider range of consequences than previously assumed. It has
been shown in this study that employment growth, wage growth,
labour productivity growth and industry concentration were
affected by Australian FDI. None of the previous studies has
analysed all the consequences investigated in this study, so in this
study an important contribution has been made by providing a
more complete picture of FDI in Australian. Moreover, the study
is based on more recent and previously unexplored datasets.
Overall, the results on labour productivity growth and industry
concentration were more in line with international studies than
with other Australian results, while the effects on employment
growth and wage growth could not be supported by previous
Australian or international studies.
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