Arbeitspapier

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

While foreign-owned firms have consistently been found to pay higher wages than domestic firms to what appear to be equally productive workers, the causes of this remain unresolved. In a two-period bargaining framework we show that if training is more productive and specific in foreign firms, foreign firm workers will have a steeper wage profile and thus acquire a premium over time. Using a rich employer-employee matched data set we verify 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: CEPR Discussion Paper Series ; No. 6171

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Multinational Firms; International Business
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
Thema
Lohnniveau
Eigentümerstruktur
Multinationales Unternehmen
Berufsbegleitende Ausbildung
Verarbeitendes Gewerbe
Ghana

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Görg, Holger
Strobl, Eric
Walsh, Frank A.
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)
(wo)
London
(wann)
2007

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Görg, Holger
  • Strobl, Eric
  • Walsh, Frank A.
  • Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

Entstanden

  • 2007

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