This paper focuses on the role of absorptive capacity in determining whether or notdomestic firms benefit from productivity spillovers from FDI using establishment level data for the UK. We distinguish the effect of FDI in the same sector and region from FDI in the same sector but outside the...

We use a panel of more than 100 countries for the period 1980 to 2002 to analyse the relationship between inward foreign direct investment (FDI) and wage inequality. We particularly check whether this relationship is non-linear, in line with a theoretical discussion. We find that the effect of...

This paper seeks to identify the causal effect of foreign acquisitions on wages of skilled and unskilled workers, using difference-in-differences propensity score matching estimators. Our results suggest that there is substantial heterogeneity in the post-acquisition wage effect depending on the...