Numerous studies on firm-level data have reported higher average wages in foreign-owned
firms than in domestically owned firms. This, however, does not necessarily imply that the …

This paper seeks to identify the causal effect of foreign acquisitions on wages of skilled and
unskilled workers, using difference-in-differences propensity score matching estimators. Our …

Does hiring workers with experience from multinationals (MNEs) increase productivity in non-
MNEs? Tracing worker flows between plants in Norwegian manufacturing during the 1990s …

Many plant-level studies find that average wages in exporting firms are higher than in non-
exporting firms from the same industry and region. This paper uses a large set of linked …

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 …

This paper examines the effect of foreign acquisition on wages and employment of different
skill groups using panel data on Finnish establishments for 1988–2001. Exploiting the …

This article analyzes the determinants of earnings differentials among enterprises of different
ownership in urban China in 1995, using an extended version of Oaxaca-Blinder …

The success of export processing zones or the Zone Franche in Madagascar since 1990 is,
with the exception of Mauritius, an isolated and unknown case in Africa. This paper, based …

Theories of taste-based discrimination predict that competitive pressures will drive
discriminatory behavior out of the market. The authors analyze how firm takeovers and …

Foreign Direct Investment, FDI, is often, it is argued, one of the ways developing economies
have to develop faster and catch up with developed economies, from which most of the FDI …