Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/35189 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 3607
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
In the context of the debate on the labour-market consequences of globalisation, we examine worker mobility in order to identify the wage differences between foreign and domestic firms. Using matched employer-employee panel data for Portugal, we consider virtually all spells of interfirm mobility over a period of ten years. We find that foreign firms offer significantly more generous wage policies, although there is also a (smaller) selection effect. The results are robust to the consideration of wage growth differences, the case of displaced workers and different subsets of workers.
Subjects: 
Foreign direct investment
worker displacement
wage growth
JEL: 
J31
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

Files in This Item:
File
Size
251.43 kB





Items in EconStor are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.