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The contribution of multinationals to wage inequality: foreign ownership and the gender pay gap
Review of World Economics ( IF 1.681 ) Pub Date : 2018-12-12 , DOI: 10.1007/s10290-018-0336-2
Priit Vahter , Jaan Masso

While an abundance of studies exists documenting the significant wage premium of multinationals (MNE) and the effects of foreign direct investments on wage inequality, much less is still known about how foreign ownership of firms affects the gender wage gap. Based on employer-employee level data from Estonia—a country with the largest gender wage gap in the EU—this study highlights a regularity that foreign owned firms on average display a substantially larger gender wage gap than domestic owned firms. Among different occupation groups, this result is especially evident among managers. Furthermore, this difference is also evident if we focus on acquisitions of domestic firms by foreign MNEs and estimate its effects based on propensity score matching. The resulting increase in the gender wage gap is due to men capturing a higher wage premium from working at foreign owned firms than women, although both tend to gain in terms of wages from being employed at foreign owned firms. We find evidence (albeit limited) suggesting that one of the explanations of the difference between foreign and domestic owned firms in the gender wage gap could be that foreign owned firms require more continuous commitment from their employees compared to other firms.

中文翻译:

跨国公司对工资不平等的贡献:外国所有权和性别工资差距

尽管已有大量研究记录了跨国公司的高额工资溢价和外国直接投资对工资不平等的影响,但关于外国公司所有权如何影响性别工资差距的知之甚少。根据来自爱沙尼亚(欧盟性别工资差距最大的国家)的雇主-雇员水平数据,本研究强调了一种规律性,即外资拥有的公司平均显示出比国内拥有的公司大得多的性别工资差距。在不同职业群体中,这一结果在管理人员中尤为明显。此外,如果我们专注于外国跨国公司对国内公司的收购,并根据倾向得分匹配来评估其影响,这种差异也很明显。性别工资差距的增加是由于男性在外资企业工作所赚取的工资溢价高于女性,尽管两者在受雇于外资企业中的工资均趋于增加。我们发现(尽管数量有限)证据表明,外国和本地拥有公司之间在性别工资差距上的差异的一种解释可能是,与其他公司相比,外国拥有公司需要其雇员更多的持续承诺。
更新日期:2018-12-12
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