Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/3942 
Year of Publication: 
2006
Series/Report no.: 
UCD Centre for Economic Research Working Paper Series No. WP06/28
Publisher: 
University College Dublin, UCD School of Economics, Dublin
Abstract: 
This paper investigates the link between nationality of ownership and wage elasticities of labour demand at the level of the plant. In particular, we examine whether labour demand in multinationals becomes less elastic with respect to the wage if the plant has backward linkages with the local economy. Our empirical evidence, based on a rich plant level dataset, shows that the extent of local linkages indeed reduces the wage elasticity of labour demand. This result is economically important and holds for a number of different specifications.
Subjects: 
Labour demand
Elasticities
Linkages
Multinational companies
JEL: 
L23
J23
F23
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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