Browsing The Economic and Social Review, Vol. 33, No. 1, Spring, 2002 by Subject "Foreign firms"

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    • Foreign ownership and wages in British establishments 

      Velde, Dirk Willem te (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2002)
      This paper uses the 1990-1998 Workplace Employee Relations Survey (WERS) panel data set to show that foreign establishments in Britain pay 13 per cent higher wages than domestic establishments. However, the differential ...

    • Why are productivity and wages higher in foreign firms? 

      Girma, Sourafel; Thompson, Steve; Wright, Peter W. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2002)
      This paper uses a panel data framework to examine whether foreign firms in the UK have higher levels of productivity and set higher wage rates than domestic ones ceteris paribus, or whether this is due to unmeasured ...