The impact of multinational companies on the employment in Romania

The activities of multinational companies (MNCs) in the host country are considered in scientific literature an element that is stimulating economic growth. This is the reason authorities of former communist countries attempted to stimulate the entry of foreign direct investments (FDI). This paper will focus on the effects of MNCs presence in the host country, mainly on the employment rate. This issue is important because, beginning with the change of the political regime, Romania has undergone a transformation of its productive structures. These changes were often accompanied by the reorganization of large state enterprises, which were old and oversized. It led to the discharge of a large number of their employees. In these conditions can one ask to what extent MNCs played a role in creating new jobs in Romania? In order to answer this question, we used the results of our survey, which used as subjects the French multinational companies established in Romania. (C) 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.