Foreign ownership and its effects on employment and wages: The case of Sweden

Artikel

In this paper, we study how foreign ownership of Swedish companies affects employment and wages. To study these effects, we specify a model based on the assumption that the Swedish labour market can be described as one where trade unions and employers bargain over employment and wages. Our hypothesis is that bargaining power is affected by institutional settings and the ownership of the firm. To test our hypothesis, we used a panel data set of 242 large Swedish manufacturing firms over the period 1980-2005. The results indicate no significant impact of foreign ownership on employment or wages in Sweden.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Journal: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies ; ISSN: 2193-9012 ; Volume: 5 ; Year: 2016 ; Issue: 8 ; Pages: 1-17 ; Heidelberg: Springer

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs: General ; Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining: General ; Firm Behavior: Theory ; Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models: Panel Data Models; Spatio-temporal Models
• Subject: Bargaining power ; Trade union ; Employment ; Wages

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Brännlund, Runar ; Nordström, Jonas ; Stage, Jesper ; Svedin, Dick
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Springer
• (where): Heidelberg
• (when): 2016

Further information

• DOI: doi:10.1186/s40174-016-0058-1
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/195004
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET