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Title: Why do foreign-owned firms pay more? The role of on-the-job training
Keywords: F23
J24
ddc:330
Lohnniveau
Eigentümerstruktur
Multinationales Unternehmen
Berufsbegleitende Ausbildung
Verarbeitendes Gewerbe
Ghana
Issue Date: 16-Oct-2013
Publisher: Centre for Economic Policy Research, London
Description: While foreign-owned firms have consistently been found to pay higher wages than domestic firms to what appear to be equally productive workers, the causes of this remain unresolved. In a two-period bargaining framework we show that if training is more productive and specific 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 we verify 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.
URI: http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/3987
Other Identifiers: Discussion paper Centre for Economic Policy Research, London 6171
http://hdl.handle.net/10419/3987
ppn:527324299
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