Abstract
Multinational Companies and Wage Inequality in the Host Country: The Case of Ireland. — In this paper, the authors analyze the impact of multinational companies on wage inequality in a host country. Based on a model, in which the introduction of new technologies leads to increases in the demand for skilled labour and, therefore, to rising wage inequality, they econometrically study the Irish manufacturing sector between 1979 and 1995. They examine inequality between wages for skilled and unskilled labour within the same manufacturing sector. Their results indicate that there is an inverted-U relationship between wage inequality and multinationals, i.e., with the increasing presence of multinationals, wage inequality first increases, reaches a maximum, and decreases eventually.
Zusammenfassung
Multinationale Unternehmen und Lohnungleichheit im Gastland: Der Fall Irland. — Die Verfasser analysieren die Auswirkungen multinationaler Unternehmen auf die Lohnungleichheit im Gastland. Auf der Grundlage eines Modells, in dem die Einführung neuer Technologien die Nachfrage nach qualifizierten ArbeitkrÄften verstÄrkt und damit die Ungleichheit unter den Löhnen erhöht, analysieren sie ökonometrisch den gewerblichen Sektor Irlands zwischen 1979 und 1995. Sie untersuchen die Ungleicheit der Löhne von gelernten und von ungelernten Arbeits-krÄften im gleichen Produktionszweig. Ihre Ergebnisse zeigen, da\ es eine umgekehrte U-förmige Beziehung zwischen Lohnungleichheit und Multis gibt, d.h., mit zunehmen-der Anwesenheit von Multis steigt die Lohnungleichheit zunÄchst an, erreicht dann ein Maximum und geht schlie\lich zurück.
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