Arbeitspapier

Why do foreign-owned-firms pay more? The role of on-the-job training

Foreign-owned firms have consistently been found to pay higher wages than domestic firms to what appear to be equally productive workers in both developed and developing countries alike. Although a number of studies have documented and some attempted to explain this stylized fact, the issue still remains unresolved. In a multi-period bargaining framework we show that if firm specific training is more productive in foreign firms, foreign firm workers will have a steeper wage profile and thus acquire a premium over time. Using a rich employeremployee matched data set we show that the foreign wage premium is only acquired by workers over time spent in the firm and only by those that receive on the job training, thus providing empirical support for a firm specific human capital acquisition explanation.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 590

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Multinational Firms; International Business
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
Thema
foreign firms
wages
on-the-job training
Lohnniveau
Eigentümerstruktur
Multinationales Unternehmen
Berufsbegleitende Ausbildung
Verarbeitendes Gewerbe
Ghana

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Görg, Holger
Strobl, Eric
Walsh, Frank A.
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2002

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Görg, Holger
  • Strobl, Eric
  • Walsh, Frank A.
  • Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2002

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