Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/81147 
Year of Publication: 
2006
Series/Report no.: 
IFN Working Paper No. 674
Publisher: 
Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN), Stockholm
Abstract: 
Numerous studies on firm-level data have reported higher average wages in foreign-owned firms than in domestically-owned firms. This, however, does not necessarily imply that the individual worker’s wage increase with foreign ownership. Using detailed matched employer-employee data on the entire Swedish private sector, we examine the effect of foreign ownership on individual wages, controlling for individual and firm heterogeneity as well as for possible selection bias in foreign acquisitions. We distinguish between foreign greenfields and takeovers and compare foreign owned firms with both domestic multinationals and local firms. Our results show a considerably smaller wage premium in foreign owned firms than what has been found in studies conducted at a more aggregate level. Moreover, foreign takeovers of Swedish firms tend to have no or even a negative effect on wages.
Subjects: 
FDI
Foreign Ownership
Wages
Matched Employer-Employee Data
Propensity Score Matching
JEL: 
C23
F23
J31
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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