Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/26177 
Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 2132
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
This study distinguishes multinational firm (MNE) technology-spillover from learning effects. Whenever learning takes time, the model predicts that foreign investors deduct the economic value of learning from wages of inexperienced workers and add it to experienced ones to prevent them from moving to local competitors. Hence, the national wage bill is unaffected by the presence of MNEs. In contrast to learning, technology spillover effects occur whenever a worker with MNE experience contributes more to local firms' than to MNEs' productivity. In this case, experienced MNE workers are hired by indigenous firms and the host country obtains a welfare gain from the presence of MNEs. Implications of this model for the empirical findings of the MNE wage premium and the empirical FDI technology spillover literature are also discussed.
Subjects: 
FDI
foreign takeover
cross-border M&A
FDI technology spillover
JEL: 
F2
J3
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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