Foreign Ownership, Microelectronic Technology and Skills: Evidence for British Establishments

Dirk Willem te Velde

National Institute Economic Review, 2003, vol. 185, issue 1, 93-106

Abstract: This paper uses the Workplace Employee Relations Survey panel for 1990-1998 to investigate the relationship between foreign ownership, skill-structure and use of microelectronic technologies in British establishments. We find that foreign-owned establishments are early adopters of new microelectronic technologies and employ more non-manual workers (more senior technical professional workers, less skilled manual workers). Because foreign-owned establishments are early adopters of new technology, an increase in foreign ownership can partly explain a recent improvement in the relative position of skilled workers in Britain.

Date: 2003
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