The Role of Multinational Firms in the Wage‐Gap Debate Journal Article

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abstract

• The observation of an increase in the ratio of skilled to unskilled wages in the high‐income countries and in some cases in low/middle‐income countries has led to considerable discussion and controversy as to its cause. Virtually none of the analyses have considered a role for multinational investment in explaining the wage‐gap phenomenon. This paper adapts the authors’ earlier work to consider what role multinationals might play in factor markets. It identifies circumstances under which investment liberalization is likely to raise the wage gap in both the skilled‐labor abundant and the unskilled‐labor abundant country.

CU Boulder Authors

• Markusen, James R

publication date

• November 1, 1997

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• green

Date in CU Experts

• July 10, 2014 5:56 AM

Full Author List

• Markusen JR; Venables AJ

author count

• 2

published in

• Review of International Economics  Journal

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International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

• 0965-7576

Electronic International Standard Serial Number (EISSN)

• 1467-9396

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9396.00068

Additional Document Info

start page

• 435

end page

• 451

volume

• 5

issue

• 4