FDI technology spillovers and wages

Arbeitspapier

This study distinguishes multinational firm (MNE) technology-spillover from learning effects. Whenever learning takes time, the model predicts that foreign investors deduct the economic value of learning from wages of inexperienced workers and add it to experienced ones to prevent them from moving to local competitors. Hence, the national wage bill is unaffected by the presence of MNEs. In contrast to learning, technology spillover effects occur whenever a worker with MNE experience contributes more to local firms' than to MNEs' productivity. In this case, experienced MNE workers are hired by indigenous firms and the host country obtains a welfare gain from the presence of MNEs. Implications of this model for the empirical findings of the MNE wage premium and the empirical FDI technology spillover literature are also discussed.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 2132

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft
• Thema: FDI ; foreign takeover ; cross-border M&A ; FDI technology spillover ; Übernahme ; Multinationales Unternehmen ; Direktinvestition ; Spillover-Effekt ; Technischer Fortschritt ; Lohnniveau ; Internationale Arbeitsmobilität ; Theorie

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Urban, Dieter M.
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
• (wo): Munich
• (wann): 2007

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/26177
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ