TY - UNPB
T1 - Foreign Ownership and Labour Markets in sub-Saharan African Manufacturing and Services Firms
AU - Foster-McGregor, Neil
AU - Isaksson, Anders
AU - Kaulich, Florian
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - We examine whether foreign-owned firms pay higher wages and have higher employment than domestically-owned firms using survey data from 19 sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries and data on both manufacturing and services fi ms. Our results indicate that foreign-owned firms tend to pay higher average wages than domestically-owned firms conditional on other factors such as firm size and country and sector effects, with the wage premium found to be higher for white-collar workers. Foreign-owned firms are also found to employ more workers, an effect that tends to be larger in manufacturing firms, and for blue-collar workers in manufacturing in particular.
AB - We examine whether foreign-owned firms pay higher wages and have higher employment than domestically-owned firms using survey data from 19 sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries and data on both manufacturing and services fi ms. Our results indicate that foreign-owned firms tend to pay higher average wages than domestically-owned firms conditional on other factors such as firm size and country and sector effects, with the wage premium found to be higher for white-collar workers. Foreign-owned firms are also found to employ more workers, an effect that tends to be larger in manufacturing firms, and for blue-collar workers in manufacturing in particular.
UR - https://www.unido.org/fileadmin/user_media_upgrade/What_we_do/Topics/Business__investment_and_technology_services/Foreign_Ownership_and_Wages_in_SSA_Final_AI.pdf
M3 - Working Paper/Preprint
T3 - BIT Working Paper
BT - Foreign Ownership and Labour Markets in sub-Saharan African Manufacturing and Services Firms
ER -