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Multinational companies and wage inequality in the host country : the case of Ireland

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dc.creator Figini, Paolo
dc.creator Görg, Holger
dc.date 1998
dc.date.accessioned 2013-10-16T06:04:35Z
dc.date.available 2013-10-16T06:04:35Z
dc.date.issued 2013-10-16
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10419/1293
dc.identifier ppn:258307315
dc.identifier.uri http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/1293
dc.description In this paper, we analyse the effects of multinational companies on wage inequality in the host country, studying the case of the Irish economy. Based on a model developed by Aghion and Howitt (1998), in which the introduction of new technologies leads to increasing demand for skilled labour and, therefore, to rising inequality, we conduct an econometric study using data for the Irish manufacturing sector between 1979 and 1995. We examine inequality between wages for skilled and unskilled labour within the same manufacturing sector. Our results indicate that there is an inverted-U relationship between wage inequality and the presence of multinationals, i.e., with increasing presence of multinationals, wage inequality first increases, reaches a maximum and decreases eventually, ceteris paribus.
dc.language eng
dc.publisher Dep. of Economics, Trinity College, University of Dublin Dublin
dc.relation Trinity Economic Papers Series, Technical Paper / Trinity College 1998,16
dc.rights http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen
dc.subject D63
dc.subject F23
dc.subject J31
dc.subject ddc:330
dc.subject Multinationales Unternehmen
dc.subject Technologietransfer
dc.subject Lohntheorie
dc.subject Neue Wachstumstheorie
dc.subject Theorie
dc.title Multinational companies and wage inequality in the host country : the case of Ireland
dc.type doc-type:workingPaper


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