Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/3987 
Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
CEPR Discussion Paper Series No. 6171
Publisher: 
Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London
Abstract: 
While foreign-owned firms have consistently been found to pay higher wages than domestic firms to what appear to be equally productive workers, the causes of this remain unresolved. In a two-period bargaining framework we show that if training is more productive and specific in foreign firms, foreign firm workers will have a steeper wage profile and thus acquire a premium over time. Using a rich employer-employee matched data set we verify that the foreign wage premium is only acquired by workers over time spent in the firm and only by those that receive on the job training, thus providing empirical support for a firm specific human capital acquisition explanation.
JEL: 
F23
J24
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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