This paper investigates the effect of Outward Foreign Direct Investment (OFDI) on parent country employment from the perspective of multinational enterprises (MNEs). We review the two prevalent and opposite arguments in explaining the motivations of firms becoming MNEs, market-oriented and resource-oriented, and empirically study the net effect on firm level employment in China. Employing the firm level data, we answer that question by studying how multi-nationalization impacts the parent companies employment. We discover that MNEs enjoy 25% more employees than the domestic enterprises (DEs) when controlling for the firm size and other relevant variables. We substantiate the findings through a wide arrange of robustness checks: replacing the original variables in the model with alternative variables, utilizing additional controls, subsamples regressions as well as the Propensity Score Matching (Propensity Score Matching, PSM) in constructing more plausible counterfactuals; the results stay virtually unchanged.