Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/216352 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 13040
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We compare wages in multinational enterprises (MNEs) versus domestic firms, the earnings of domestic firm workers with past, future and no MNE experience, and estimate how the presence of ex-MNE peers affects the earnings of domestic firm employees. The analysis relies on monthly panel data covering half of the Hungarian population and their employers in 2003-2011. We identify the returns to MNE experience from changes of ownership, wages paid by new firms of different ownership, and the movement of workers between enterprises. We find high contemporaneous and lagged returns to MNE experience and significant spillover effects. Foreign acquisition has a moderate wage impact but there is a wide gap between new MNEs and domestic firms. The findings suggest that MNE experience is valued in the high-wage segment of the local economy, connected with the MNEs via worker turnover.
Subjects: 
wage differentials
foreign direct investment
Hungary
multinational enterprises
wage spillover
JEL: 
F23
J31
J62
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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