issues at the core of this ongoing debate. We find that the relationship between firm size and employment growth is sensitive …

, age, and prior growth. Relative to controls, employment at target establishments declines 3 percent over two years post … at target firms are less than 1 percent of initial employment. In contrast, the sum of gross job creation and destruction … at target firms exceeds that of controls by 13 percent of employment over two years. In short, private equity buyouts …

is accounted for by the reduction in the response of employment to shocks in US establishments. Using a plant level … employment adjustment. Changes in market power, as captured by changes in the curvature of the revenue, function play a minimal …