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Title: Why Do Foreign-Owned Firms Pay More? The Role of On-the-Job Training

Author(s): Holger G�rg, Eric Strobl and Frank Walsh

Publication Date: March 2007

Keyword(s): foreign firms, on-the-job training and wages

Programme Area(s): International Trade and Regional Economics

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.

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G�rg, H, Strobl, E and Walsh, F. 2007. 'Why Do Foreign-Owned Firms Pay More? The Role of On-the-Job Training'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=6171