The beneficial employment effect claimed for FDI is that it brings jobs to a host country that would otherwise not be created there. As we saw in the opening case on Toyota in France, employment effects are both direct and indirect. Direct effects arise when a foreign MNE employs a number of host-country citizens. Indirect effects arise when jobs are created in local suppliers as a result of the investment and when jobs are created because of increased local spending by employees of the MNE. The indirect employment effects are often as large as, if not larger than, the direct effects. The opening case revealed that Toyota's investment in France created 2,000 direct jobs and perhaps another 2,000 jobs in support industries