This paper seeks to identify the causal effect of foreign acquisitions on wages of skilled and unskilled workers, using … find sizable post acquisition wage effects on skilled and unskilled wages following an acquisition by a US firm. No such …

This paper investigates the effects of services offshoring on wages using individual-level data combined with industry … real wages. Hence, offshoring has contributed to a widening of the wage gap between skilled and less skilled workers. This …

determinants receive, at least in Germany. While wages are affected negatively by a relative increase in imports, immigration …

There is a vast empirical literature on the effects of training on wages that are taken as an indirect measure of … Force Survey. This is combined with complementary industry-level data sources on value added, wages, labour and capital. We … productivity) is low. Secondly, our estimates of the effects of training on wages are about half the size of the effects on …

cross-border merger activity generate positive spillovers to wages, but are more likely to generate firm-level wage …Two literatures exist concerning cross-border merger activity’s impact on domestic wages: one focusing on spillover …) unionization rates and under high (low) degrees of relatedness. Employing US firm-level panel data on wages combined with industry …

effects, however, although it is suggested that host country spillovers vary systematically between countries and industries … competition. The spillovers to the home countries of MNCs are often more difficult to identify, for various reasons. Earlier …

, relative wages for human capital declined by 2 percent during 1995-2002 and increased by 41 percent during 1994-2002 in Poland …. In both countries outsourcing contributes roughly 35 percent to these changes in the relative wages for skilled worker …

Natives often fear that competition from foreigners in labour markets will cause wages to fall and unemployment to rise … wages of Germans as a whole. Relatively small gains are made by white collar employees with less than 20 years work …