Foreign ownership, labour mobility and wages.

Autor/in	Pesola, Hanna
Institution	Helsinki Center of Economic Research
Titel	Foreign ownership, labour mobility and wages. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Unternehmen in ausländischem Besitz, Arbeitskräftemobilität und Löhne.
Quelle	Helsinki (2007), 32 S.; 207 KB PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2) Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	Helsinki Center of Economic Research. Discussion paper. 175
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie; Graue Literatur
ISSN	1795-0562
URN	urn:nbn:fi-fe20071765
Schlagwörter	Arbeitgeber; Ausländer; Auslandsinvestition; Einkommen; Finnland; Arbeitsmobilität; Multinationales Unternehmen; Inländer; Berufserfahrung; Lohnhöhe; Produzierendes Gewerbe; Fluktuation; Bildungsertrag; Bildungsertrag; Wissenstransfer; Inländer; Auslandsinvestition; Einkommen; Lohnhöhe; Multinationales Unternehmen; Produzierendes Gewerbe; Zwischenbetriebliche Mobilität; Arbeitsmobilität; Berufserfahrung; Dienstleistungsbereich; Arbeitspapier; Fluktuation; Arbeitgeber; Ausländer; Hoch Qualifizierter; Finnland
Abstract	"There is a multitude of empirical research attempting to measure the effects of foreign direct investment, including the extent of spillovers from foreign owned to domestic firms. However, the mechanisms through which these spillovers occur have not received as much attention. One of the potential channels for spillovers of technological, marketing or managerial knowledge from foreign owned to purely domestic firms is labour mobility. Workers may benefit from such a spillover process if they manage to appropriate part of the return to the knowledge of the foreign owned firm. The ability to transfer knowledge and thereby benefit from it may depend on the skill level of an employee. This paper uses Finnish linked employeremployee panel data to analyse the extent to which employees benefit from knowledge they acquire in foreign owned firms and whether educational background makes a difference in this process. The possibility that employees may pay for the accumulation of this knowledge, as well as the potential for 'reverse spillovers' i.e. knowledge diffusion from domestic to foreign owned firms are also considered. The estimates indicate that highly educated employees earn a return to prior experience in a foreign owned firm, over and above the return to other previous experience. These workers do not appear to pay for the accumulation of knowledge in the form of lower wages. The results do not indicate that foreign owned firms pay a premium for knowledge that workers bring with them from domestic firms." Die Untersuchung enthält quantitative Daten. Forschungsmethode: empirisch-quantitativ; empirisch; Sekundäranalyse; Längsschnitt; Querschnitt. Die Untersuchung bezieht sich auf den Zeitraum 1994 bis 2002. (author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2009/1