Foreign Ownership and Wages in British Establishments

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Jan 2002 Ireland Publisher:Economic & Social StudiesJournal:Economic and Social Review, volume 33, pages 101-108Publicly funded

Authors: Velde, Dirk Willem te;

handle: 2262/61900

Foreign Ownership and Wages in British Establishments

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Abstract

This paper uses the 1990-1998 Workplace Employee Relations Survey (WERS) panel data set to show that foreign establishments in Britain pay 13 per cent higher wages than domestic establishments. However, the differential disappears when we control for the skill structure within establishments.

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Ireland

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Trinity College Dublin
Ireland

Keywords

Britain, 330, Labour skills, Wages, Foreign firms, Quantitative methods

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