We present evidence about the role of rent sharing in fostering the interdependence of labourmarkets around the world. Our results draw on a firm-level panel of more than 2,000multinationals and more than 5,000 of their affiliates, covering 47 home and host countries.We find considerable...

This paper analyses to what extent working conditions in foreign-owned firms differ fromthose in their domestic counterparts. It makes three main contributions. First, we replicate theconsensus in the empirical literature by applying a standardised methodology to firm-leveldata for three...