This paper uses data on individual wages in manufacturing industry for five African countries in the early 1990s to test whether firms owned by foreigners pay higher wages than do forms owned by locals for apparently equivalent workers, and whether such benefits accrue to all or only certain...

Many OECD governments employ home country measures (HCM's) to promote foreign direct investment to developing countries. These measures include support for risk reduction, technical assistance to improve the host country investment climate and home country market access. More research is needed...