Foreign Ownership and Labour in Sub-Saharan African Firms(Article)
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- aNeil Foster-McGregor, UNU-MERIT, Keizer-Karelplein 19, Maastricht, 6211TC, Netherlands
- bUNIDO, Wagramerstrasse 5, PO Box 300, Vienna, 1400, Austria
- cVienna University of Economics and Business, Welthandelsplatz 1/D4, Vienna, 1020, Austria
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Abstract
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. Our results indicate that foreign-owned firms pay higher average wages than domestically owned firms, with the wage premium found to be higher for white-collar workers. We find little evidence of a positive employment effect of foreign ownership, though the evidence suggests a positive employment effect of Chinese ownership on workers in manufacturing. © 2015 African Development Bank.
Indexed keywords
| GEOBASE Subject Index: | employmentlabormanufacturingownershipwage |
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| Regional Index: | Sub-Saharan Africa |
- ISSN: 10176772
- Source Type: Journal
- Original language: English
- DOI: 10.1111/1467-8268.12129
- Document Type: Article
- Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
© Copyright 2015 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
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