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Headquarter services, skill intensity and labour demand elasticities in multinational firms
Godart, Olivier N.; Görg, Holger; Greenaway, David - 2009
Using information on a panel of multinational firms operating in the United Kingdom from 1996 to 2005, we find that labour demand in domestic multinationals is less sensitive to own labour costs changes than in foreign multinationals. This difference in wage elasticity of labour demand persists...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003929474
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Multinational companies, backward linkages and labour demand elasticities
Görg, Holger; Henry, Michael; Strobl, Eric; Walsh, Frank A. - 2006
This paper investigates the link between nationality of ownership and wage elasticities of labour demand at the level of the plant. In particular, we examine whether labour demand in multinationals becomes less elastic with respect to the wage if the plant has backward linkages with the local...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003522908
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Domestic multinationals, foreign affiliates, and labour demand elasticities
Godart, Olivier N.; Görg, Holger; Greenaway, David - 2012
Using information on a panel of multinational firms operating in the United Kingdom from 1996 to 2005, we find that labour demand in domestic multinationals is less sensitive to labour cost changes than in foreign multinationals. This difference in the wage elasticity of labour demand persists...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009686879
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Multinational Companies, Backward Linkages and Labour Demand Elasticities
Görg, Holger - 2007
This paper investigates the link between nationality of ownership and wage elasticities of labour demand at the level of the plant. In particular, we examine whether labour demand in multinationals becomes less elastic with respect to the wage if the plant has backward linkages with the local...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012778115
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Winners and losers: fragmentation, trade and wages revisited
Görg, Holger; Geishecker, Ingo - 2003
Our paper investigates the link between international outsourcing and wages utilising a large household panel and … outsourcing has had a marked impact on wages. Distinguishing three skill categories we find evidence that outsourcing reduced the … real wage for workers in the lowest skill categories by up to 1.8% while it increased real wages for high-skilled workers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261674
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Evaluating the causal effects of foreign acquisition on domestic skilled and unskilled wages
Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger - 2003
target?s development of wages for skilled and unskilled workers. We pay particular attention to identifying the causal effect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265391
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International fragmentation and relative wages in the UK
Hijzen, Alexander; Görg, Holger; Hine, Robert C. - 2003
This paper re-examines the trade-based explanation of increased wage inequality in developed countries by focusing on international outsourcing. It is the first detailed study to address the effects of outsourcing on labour markets in the UK. In a recent paper, Feenstra and Hanson (1996)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265562
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International outsourcing and the skill structure of labour demand in the United Kingdom
Hijzen, Alexander; Görg, Holger; Hine, Robert C. - 2004
This paper investigates empirically the link between international outsourcing and the skill structure of labour demand in the United Kingdom. It is the first detailed study of this issue for the UK. Outsourcing is calculated using import-use matrices of input-output tables for manufacturing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277433
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Winners and losers: fragmentation, trade and wages revisited
Geishecker, Ingo; Görg, Holger - 2004
Our paper investigates the link between outsourcing and wages utilising a large household panel and combining it with … fragmentation has had a marked impact on wages. Distinguishing three skill categories we find evidence that outsourcing reduced the … definitions of outsourcing. Furthermore we find some evidence that high-skilled workers experienced increased wages due to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277444
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International outsourcing and the skill structure of labour demand in the United Kingdom
Hijzen, Alexander; Görg, Holger; Hine, Robert C. - 2004
This paper investigates empirically the link between international outsourcing and the skill structure of labour demand in the United Kingdom. It is the first detailed study of this issue for the UK. Outsourcing is calculated using import-use matrices of input-output tables for manufacturing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277445