Replication data for: Margins of Multinational Labor Substitution

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Marc-Andreas Muendler; Sascha O. Becker

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Project Citation:

Muendler, Marc-Andreas, and Becker, Sascha O. Replication data for: Margins of Multinational Labor Substitution. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2010. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-11. https://doi.org/10.3886/E112380V1

Project Description

Summary: Employment at a multinational enterprise (MNE) responds to wages at the extensive margin, when an MNE enters a foreign location, and at the intensive margin, when an MNE operates existing affiliates. We present an MNE model and conditions for parametric and nonparametric identification. Prior studies rarely found wages to affect MNE employment. Our integrated approach documents salient labor substitution for German manufacturing MNEs and removes bias. In Central and Eastern Europe, most employment responds at the extensive margin, while in Western Europe the extensive margin accounts for around two-thirds of employment shifts. At distant locations, MNEs respond to wages only at the extensive margin. (JEL F23, J23, J31, R32)

Scope of Project

Subject Terms: multiple sample selectivity; translog cost function; location choice; nonparametric estimation; multinational enterprise; labor demand

JEL Classification:
      F23 Multinational Firms; International Business
      J23 Labor Demand
      J31 Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
      R32 Other Spatial Production and Pricing Analysis

Geographic Coverage: Germany

Time Period(s): 1996 – 2001 (Annual data 1996 to 2001)

Universe: German firms and their foreign affiliates, 1996-2001

Data Type(s): administrative records data; program source code; aggregate data

Collection Notes:

On-site Access to Micro Data at Deutsche Bundesbank

Available in the repository are complementary aggregate data

Methodology

Data Source: (1) MiDi data (MIcro database Direct Investment) on German MNEs at Deutsche Bundesbank [not in repository] (2) Ustan database on non-ficial firm balance sheets and income statements at Deutsche Bundesbank [not in repository] (3) Extracts from Unido Industrial Statistics Database (4) Extracts from OWW (Occupational Wages around the World) (5) Extracts from CEPII bilateral trade and geographic

Unit(s) of Observation: Multinational Firms,

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