Evaluating the foreign ownership wage premium using a difference-in-differences matching approach

This paper seeks to identify the causal effect of foreign acquisitions on wages of skilled and unskilled workers, using difference-in-differences propensity score matching estimators. Our results suggest that there is substantial heterogeneity in the post-acquisition wage effect depending on the nat...

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Volume:	72
Main Author:	Girma, Sourafel Görg, Holger
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Zielgruppe:	Academic
Place of publication:	AMSTERDAM Elsevier B.V 2007 ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV Elsevier Elsevier Science Publishers
published in:	Journal of international economics Vol. 72; no. 1; pp. 97 - 112
ORCID:	0000-0001-5815-1619
Data of publication:	2007
ISSN:	0022-1996 1873-0353
EISSN:	1873-0353
Discipline:	Economics Business
Series:	Journal of International Economics
Subjects:	Acquisitions Multinationals Difference-in-differences Wages Matching estimator Economics Business & Economics Social Sciences Work Evaluation Compensation and benefits Foreign investments Analysis Acquisitions F23 J31 Multinationals Difference-in-differences Wages Matching estimator difference-in-differences COUNTRIES multinationals PROPENSITY SCORE DIRECT-INVESTMENT wages MANUFACTURING FIRMS UK PRODUCTIVITY CAUSAL acquisitions matching estimator PROGRAM
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Database:	Social Sciences Citation Index Web of Science - Social Sciences Citation Index - 2007 Web of Knowledge Web of Science RePEc RePEc IDEAS CrossRef Academic OneFile (A&I only) Database information Databases - DBIS