Should Trade Unions Welcome Foreign Investors? Evidence from Danish Matched Employer-Employee Data

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dc.contributor.author	Braun, Sebastian	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2009-02-04T10:28:19Z
dc.date.available	2009-02-04T10:28:19Z
dc.date.issued	2008-12-05T00:00:00Z	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7715
dc.description.abstract	The paper presents first empirical evidence on the effect of foreign ownership on the union wage premium. Using matched employer-employee data for Denmark, the positive effect of plant-level unionisation on wages is found to vanish in foreign-owned firm. While the estimation establishes a positive wage effect of foreign ownership of between two and four per cent for workers employed in non-unionised firms, the foreign ownership premium is close to zero for workers in highly unionised enterprises. This result might help to understand why trade unions frequently resist foreign take-overs even though the existence of a positive foreign ownership wage premium is widely acknowledged in the literature.	en_US
dc.format.extent	20 s.	en_US
dc.language	eng	en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Working paper;2008-07	en_US
dc.title	Should Trade Unions Welcome Foreign Investors? Evidence from Danish Matched Employer-Employee Data	en_US
dc.type	wp	en_US
dc.accessionstatus	modt08dec05 nijemo	en_US
dc.contributor.corporation	Copenhagen Business School. CBS	en_US
dc.contributor.department	Centre for Economic and Business Research	en_US
dc.contributor.departmentshort	CEBR	en_US
dc.contributor.departmentuk	Centre for Economic and Business Research	en_US
dc.contributor.departmentukshort	CEBR	en_US
dc.idnumber	x656557361	en_US
dc.publisher.city	København	en_US
dc.publisher.year	2008	en_US