Table 4.—Employment and Wage Rates for Manufacturing MOFA's in High-Wage and Low-Wage Host Countries, 1992
| Average hourly wage rate, 1989 (dollars)/1/ | Employment by manufacturing MOFA's | ||
| Thousands of employees | Share of sample total (percent)/2/ | ||
| All sample countries | 3,067.0 | 100.0 | |
 High-wage-country sample/3/ |
2,005.6 | 65.4 | |
| Australia |
12.99 | 87.2 | 2.8 |
| Belgium |
16.04 | 69.6 | 2.3 |
| Canada |
16.71 | 386.4 | 12.6 |
| France |
15.69 | 201.7 | 6.6 |
| Germany |
17.03 | 398.0 | 13.0 |
| Ireland |
10.17 | 39.3 | 1.3 |
| Italy |
16.73 | 108.1 | 3.5 |
| Japan |
20.89 | 82.2 | 2.7 |
| Netherlands |
18.39 | 80.3 | 2.6 |
| Spain |
10.81 | 88.3 | 2.9 |
| Sweden |
18.69 | 16.3 | .5 |
| Switzerland |
17.86 | 21.0 | .7 |
| United Kingdom |
12.11 | 427.2 | 13.9 |
| Low-wage-country sample/3/ |
1,061.4 | 34.6 | |
| Argentina |
3.49 | 32.6 | 1.1 |
| Brazil |
4.17 | 252.0 | 8.2 |
| Colombia |
3.87 | 20.1 | .7 |
| Hong Kong |
2.98 | 36.4 | 1.2 |
| Korea, Republic of |
4.44 | 18.6 | .6 |
| Malaysia |
1.78 | 71.8 | 2.3 |
| Mexico |
2.28 | 372.8 | 12.2 |
| Philippines |
1.50 | 53.5 | 1.7 |
| Portugal |
5.60 | 14.5 | .5 |
| Singapore |
3.13 | 67.2 | 2.2 |
| South Africa |
4.47 | 14.5 | .5 |
| Taiwan |
4.55 | 37.0 | 1.2 |
| Thailand |
1.11 | 36.1 | 1.2 |
| Venezuela |
3.59 | 34.3 | 1.0 |
| Addendum: | |||
| Non-sample countries |
206.8 | ||
- Average hourly wage paid to production workers of MOFA's, 1989.
- To ensure the statistical significance of the data underlying the distinction between "high-wage" and "low-wage" countries, the analysis is restricted to a sample of host countries having the largest presence of manufacturing MOFA's, based on the 1989 benchmark survey of U.S. direct investment abroad. To be included in the sample, a country must have hosted manufacturing MOFA's that together had at least 10,000 employees in that year; such countries accounted for roughly 95 percent of all employment by manufacturing MOFA's in that year.
- The distinction between "high-wage" and "low-wage" countries is based on estimates of average hourly wages of production workers of manufacturing MOFA's from the 1989 benchmark survey. High-wage countries are defined as those with average hourly wages higher than $9.30 (the unweighted average hourly wage in 1989 of all countries included in the sample), and low-wage countries are defined as those with average hourly wages lower than that level.
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