Is there really a foreign ownership wage premium?: Evidence from matched employer-employee data

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Heyman, Fredrik; Sjoholm, Fredrik; Tingvall, Patrik Gustavsson
• 署名单位: Stockholm School of Economics
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0022-1996
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jinteco.2007.04.003
• 发表日期: 2007
• 页码: 355-376
• 关键词: FDI; foreign ownership; wages; matched employer-employee data; Propensity score matching

摘要

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 individual worker's wage increase with foreign ownership. Using detailed matched employer-employee data on the entire Swedish private sector, we examine the effect of foreign ownership on individual wages, controlling for individual and firm heterogeneity as well as for possible selection bias in foreign acquisitions. We distinguish between foreign greenfields and takeovers and compare foreign-owned firms with both domestic multinationals and local firms. Our results show a considerably smaller wage premium in foreign-owned firms than what has been found in studies conducted at a more aggregate level. Moreover, foreign takeovers of Swedish firms tend to have no or even a negative effect on wages. (C) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.