Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/1293 
Year of Publication: 
1998
Series/Report no.: 
Trinity Economic Papers Series, Technical Paper No. 1998,16
Publisher: 
Trinity College, Department of Economics, Dublin
Abstract: 
In this paper, we analyse the effects of multinational companies on wage inequality in the host country, studying the case of the Irish economy. Based on a model developed by Aghion and Howitt (1998), in which the introduction of new technologies leads to increasing demand for skilled labour and, therefore, to rising inequality, we conduct an econometric study using data for the Irish manufacturing sector between 1979 and 1995. We examine inequality between wages for skilled and unskilled labour within the same manufacturing sector. Our results indicate that there is an inverted-U relationship between wage inequality and the presence of multinationals, i.e., with increasing presence of multinationals, wage inequality first increases, reaches a maximum and decreases eventually, ceteris paribus.
JEL: 
D63
F23
J31
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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