 MULTINATIONALS AND WAGES: EVIDENCE FROM EMPLOYER–EMPLOYEE DATA IN SERBIAUros Delevic and James Kennell Economic Annals, 2022, vol. 67, issue 232, 49 - 80 Abstract: Many studies have reported that foreign-owned companies pay higher wages on average than domestic companies. However, this can be attributed to the different composition of the workforce or to a wage premium at the individual worker level. This paper contributes to this literature by observing whether individuals that change their job from a domestic to a foreign-owned company experience a change in their wages. Furthermore, it investigates whether this difference in wage patterns is moderated by workers’ education. This paper is one of the very few micro-econometric studies that deal with this question in a transition country, Serbia, using employer–employee data on the private sector over a long time period (15 years). Changing jobs is found to be positively associated with workers’ wages: the change in wages is higher when moving from a domestic to a foreign company than vice versa. The evidence suggests that more-educated workers benefit the most from leaving domestic companies. Keywords: labour mobility; job change; wage change; MNEs and wages; transition economies (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:beo:journl:v:67:y:2022:i:232:p:49-80 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from Access Statistics for this article Economic Annals is currently edited by Will Bartlett More articles in Economic Annals from Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Belgrade Contact information at EDIRC. |
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