analyse the effects of foreign mergers and acquisitions on labour productivity and employment growth up to five years after … economies in the European Union. Specifically, using micro data for manufacturing and services over the period 2001-2009, we … acquisition. Our results indicate that foreign investors tend to acquire larger firms in both manufacturing and services. Other …

better export and employment performance requires a decline of relative unit labour costs and an improvement of business …

short-run negative impulse on employment from a positive productivity shock, while this becomes smaller and statistically …-run trade-off between productivity and employment, over the medium run acceleration of productivity has a clear positive effect …The paper considers time series evidence on the relationships, and possible trade-offs, between productivity and …

: Employment; Corporate taxes under tax competition; Productivity growth and convergence; Macroeconomic policies under a single …

The paper considers time series evidence on the relationships, and possible trade-offs, between productivity and … employment, and on the impact of taxes in this connection. First, a theoretical model is built for an open economy leading to the … is that there is in the EU a fairly uniform and significant short-run negative impulse on employment from a positive …

occupational structures when explaining productivity and profitability gaps between global and local firms. The findings indicate … reflected in their productivity, it is not as clearly reflected in their profitability.The findings imply that employees have … captured a dominant share of the productivity advantage of global firms. …

We establish a set of stylised facts for trade and trading firms in five market services sectors using comparable firm …-level and services data from four EU countries. Our analysis shows that exports account for much lower shares of overall sales … in the services sectors than in manufacturing. In line with this there are also fewer firms engaged in trade in the …

Technology industry that have outsourced R&D will increase their domestic R&D employment during the next 3 years. In other com …