Production transfer within multinational enterprises and American wages

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Slaughter, MJ
• 署名单位: Dartmouth College; National Bureau of Economic Research
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0022-1996
• DOI: 10.1016/S0022-1996(98)00081-6
• 发表日期: 2000
• 页码: 449-472
• 关键词: Multinational enterprises; Skill upgrading; wage inequality

摘要

This paper tests whether the transfer of production sl:ages within US-headquartered multinational enterprises (MNEs) from US parents to foreign affiliates has contributed to within-industry shifts in US relative labor demand toward the more-skilled. There are two main empirical results. First, there is evidence of MNE transfer during the past 20 years. Second, regression analysis does not support the MNE hypothesis. MNE transfer tends to have small, imprecisely estimated effects on US relative labor demand. This finding is inconsistent with models of MNEs in which affiliate :activities substitute for parent unskilled-labor-intensive activities. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved. JEL classification: F21; F23; J31.