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Foreign-owned establishments in the United States pay higher wages, on average, than domestically-owned establishments … wages in favor of foreign establishments remains even when these other determinants of wages are taken into account. Within … manufacturing, the extent of foreign ownership in an industry in a state had no impact on wages in 1987 when these other factors …
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This paper explores the relationship between wages and foreign investment in Mexico, Venezuela, and the United States … countries: higher levels of foreign investment are associated with higher wages. In Mexico and Venezuela, foreign investment was … associated with higher wages only for foreign-owned firms -- there is no evidence of wage spillovers leading to higher wages for …
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Foreign-owned establishments in the United States pay higher wages, on average, than domestically-owned establishments …. The foreign-owned establishments tend to be in higher-wage industries and also to pay higher wages within industries. They … tend to locate in lower-wage states, but to pay more than domestically-owned firms within industries within states. Wages …
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The purpose of this paper was to investigate whether there is a relationship between the degree of wage dispersion in a country and its price level relative to other countries, compared in a common currency. It was found that once a country's real per capita income and deviations of its exchange...
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Wages in domestically- owned Indonesian manufacturing plants taken over by foreign firms increased sharply between the … levels in these plants had been less than 10 per cent above and white- collar wages more than 10 per cent below those in … their industries a year before takeover. Two years after takeover both were more than 50 per cent above average. Wages in …
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and the other is about the effect of the presence of foreign-owned firms on Indonesian wages. We ask first whether foreign … in higher wages in locally-owned plants and overall. Higher foreign presence leads to higher wages in locally …-owned plants. Since the foreign plants also pay higher wages than locally-owned ones, the two factors together mean that higher …
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Using confidential individual firm data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis survey of U.S. firms' manufacturing operations abroad, we investigate the determinants of capital intensity in affiliate operations. Host country labor cost, the scale of host country production, and the capital...
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Using U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis data for individual foreign acquisitions and new establishments in the U.S from 1988 to 1998, and aggregate data for 1980 to 1998, we find that acquisitions and establishments of new firms tend to occur in periods of high U.S. growth and take place mainly...
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This study examines the relationship between Japan's manufactured exports to individual markets and the economic activities of foreign manufacturing affiliates of Japanese multinational corporations (MNCs) and U.S. MNCs in those markets. First, the relationships between Japanese export levels...
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