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来源类型 | Working and discussion papers |
规范类型 | 工作论文 |
Foreign Ownership and Wages: Evidence from Five African Countries | |
Dirk Willem te Velde and Oliver Morrissey | |
发表日期 | 2001 |
出版年 | 2001 |
语种 | 英语 |
概述 | This paper uses data on individual wages in manufacturing industry for five African countries in the early 1990s to test whether firms owned by foreigners pay higher wages than do forms owned by locals for apparently equivalent workers, and whether such... |
摘要 | This paper uses data on individual wages in manufacturing industry for five African countries in the early 1990s to test whether firms owned by foreigners pay higher wages than do forms owned by locals for apparently equivalent workers, and whether such benefits accrue to all or only certain types of workers. We present two main findings. First, foreign ownership is associated with a 20-40 per cent increase in individual wages (conditional on age, tenure and education) on average. This is halved to 8-23 per cent if we take into account the fact that foreign-owned firms are larger and locate in high-wage sectors and regions. Secondly, there is a tendency in some countries for more skilled workers (using occupation and education categories) to benefit more from foreign ownership than less skilled workers, and this conclusion holds after accounting for the size distribution of foreign firms. We discuss, but cannot directly test, the plausibility of two explanations for these findings: 1) foreign-owned firms employ technologies that are more skill-biased than technologies in local firms and 2) skilled workers in foreign firms are more effective in rent-sharing than other workers. We contend that these explanations may not be mutually exclusive, hence cannot be empirically distinguished. |
主题 | trade ; economic development ; sub-Saharan Africa ; Cameroon ; Ghana ; Kenya ; Zambia ; Zimbabwe |
URL | https://www.odi.org/publications/4560-foreign-ownership-and-wages-evidence-five-african-countries |
来源智库 | Overseas Development Institute (United Kingdom) |
资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/505368 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Dirk Willem te Velde and Oliver Morrissey. Foreign Ownership and Wages: Evidence from Five African Countries. 2001. |
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