The most explicit discussions on the structural effects of FDI are found in Hakkala and Kokko (2000), Fors and Kokko (2001), and Kokko (2002).
All three studies discuss the change patterns in the domestic operations among Swedish MNCs, and compare productivities and wages in expanding and contracting plants ( or plants that had newly been established and those that were about to be closed ).
Their main findings were that the new plants established in Sweden by Swedish MNCs in the late 1980s paid lower salaries than the Swedish MNC plants that were sold or closed during the same years.
This was taken as an indication that relatively "good" ( i.e. well-plying ) jobs were disappearing from Sweden, and probably moving to foreign affiliates.