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Why do foreign-owned firms pay more? : the role of on-the-job training

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dc.creator Görg, Holger
dc.creator Strobl, Eric
dc.creator Walsh, Frank A.
dc.date 2002
dc.date.accessioned 2013-10-16T06:23:09Z
dc.date.available 2013-10-16T06:23:09Z
dc.date.issued 2013-10-16
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10419/2847
dc.identifier ppn:355677652
dc.identifier.uri http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/2847
dc.description Foreign-owned firms have consistently been found to pay higher wages than domestic firms to what appear to be equally productive workers in both developed and developing countries alike. Although a number of studies have documented and some attempted to explain this stylized fact, the issue still remains unresolved. In a multi-period bargaining framework we show that if firm specific training is more productive in foreign firms, foreign firm workers will have a steeper wage profile and thus acquire a premium over time. Using a rich employer-employee matched data set for Ghana manufacturing we show that the foreign wage premium is only acquired by workers over time spent in the firm and only by those that receive on the job training, thus providing empirical support for a firm specific human capital acquisition explanation.
dc.language eng
dc.publisher Leverhulme Centre for Research on Globalisation and Economic Policy, University of Nottingham Nottingham
dc.relation Research paper / Leverhulme Centre for Research on Globalisation and Economic Policy 2002,15
dc.rights http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen
dc.subject ddc:330
dc.subject Lohnniveau
dc.subject Eigentümerstruktur
dc.subject Multinationales Unternehmen
dc.subject Berufsbegleitende Ausbildung
dc.subject Verarbeitendes Gewerbe
dc.subject Ghana
dc.title Why do foreign-owned firms pay more? : the role of on-the-job training
dc.type doc-type:workingPaper


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