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Foreign Ownership and Labour in Sub‐Saharan African Firms
Author(s) -
FosterMcGregor Neil,
Isaksson Anders,
Kaulich Florian
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
african development review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.654
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 1467-8268
pISSN - 1017-6772
DOI - 10.1111/1467-8268.12129
Subject(s) - foreign ownership , wage , labour economics , business , economics , foreign direct investment , macroeconomics
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.