Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/108808 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 5263
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
Using detailed administrative data linking French firms and workers over the years 2002-2007, we document a distinct U-shaped pattern in worker-level wages surrounding the time their employer is acquired by a foreign firm, with a dip in earnings observed for several years before domestic firms switch to MNE status. This pre-acquisition decline in earnings can partly explain why prior evidence found no impact of foreign ownership on worker-level wages. Accounting for the pre-acquisition earnings dip and other confounding wage dynamics we find that MNEs increase remuneration to workers by 4.8% initially, and by 6%-8% after several years. Unique information about in-kind payments reveals that bonuses and other non-monetary remuneration also exhibit a U-shaped pattern surrounding foreign acquisition.
Subjects: 
multinational enterprises
wage premium
in-kind payments
JEL: 
F66
F14
F23
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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