This paper provides the first microeconomic cross-country analysis of the effects of foreign
ownership on wages, employment and worker turnover rates. Using firm-level and linked …

Anchored by a new wave of research under the International Collaborative Initiative on
Trade and Employment, this paper reviews the vast literature on ways that trade might affect …

In the context of the debate on the labor‐market consequences of globalization, we adopt an
original approach toward the identification of the wage differences between foreign and …

Foreign direct investment is considered an important source of knowledge spillovers. We
argue that the effects of foreign presence on host-country productivity may differ depending …

Foreign direct investment (FDI) by OECD-based multinational enterprises (MNEs) in
developing and emerging economies has increased dramatically over the past two decades …

We use a linked employer-employee data set from Germany to estimate the wage effect of
foreign-affiliates in (the former) East and West Germany. In addition, the wage effects of the …

We provide the first estimates of the effect of foreign ownership on wages in Germany,
controlling for the observed and unobserved characteristics of workers and plants. We also …

This study distinguishes multinational firm (MNE) technology‐spillover from learning effects.
Whenever learning takes time, the model predicts that foreign investors deduct the economic …

Foreign-owned firms are often hypothesized to generate productivity" spillovers" to the host
country, but both theoretical micro-foundations and empirical evidence for this are limited …