Foreign-Owned Manufacturing Establishments in USA — 1993-10-27

The distribution of occupations in foreign-owned manufacturing establishments in the U.S. was little different from that in all of manufacturing (chart 1), according to new research by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor. There were major differences among occupations, however, by industry and by country of investor (table 2). Production and related occupations accounted for a slightly smaller share of employment in foreign-owned manufacturing establishments than in all of U.S. manufacturing (63.9 vs. 65.1 percent). Among specific manufacturing industries, however, the largest gap was in the opposite direction: In the transportation equipment industry, foreign-owned plants employed 74.5 percent of their workforce in production occupations, while the share in all such plants was 60.5 percent--a gap of 14.0 percentage points.