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The Effects of Foreign Owned Firms on the Labor Market

Almeida, Rita - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

Cross sectional evidence shows that foreign firms have a more educated workforce and pay higher wages than domestic firms. These results do not necessarily imply that foreign direct investment translates into higher demand for educated workers or higher wages, however, since foreign investment...

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Blessing or Curse? Domestic Plants' Survival and Employment Prospects after Foreign Acquisitions

Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

This paper investigates whether the acquisition of a domestic establishment by a foreign owner has any effects on the survival prospects and employment growth of that plant. The analysis uses plant level data for the UK electronics and food industries for the period 1980 to 1993. We control for...

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Evaluating the Causal Effects of Foreign Acquisition on Domestic Skilled and Unskilled Wages

Girma, Sourafel; Goerg, Holger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

increase in the wage rate following an acquisition by a US firm, while no such effect is discernible following acquisitions by …

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Foreign Acquisition, Plant Survival, and Employment Growth

Bandick, Roger; Görg, Holger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

This paper analyses the effect of foreign acquisition on survival probability and employment growth of target plant using data on Swedish manufacturing plants during the period 1993-2002. An improvement over previous studies is that we take into account firm level heterogeneity by separating the...

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Cross-Border Mergers and National Champions in an Integrating Economy

Suedekum, Jens - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

and the social desirability of national vs. international mergers in relation to three different issues, (i) the level of … trade freeness, (ii) the possibility of rent appropriation on world markets, and (iii) direct "synergy" effects of mergers …. Cross-border M&A is privately and socially more attractive than domestic mergers. National competition policy may be too …

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National Champion versus Foreign Takeover

Suedekum, Jens - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

We analyze an oligopolistic market where a domestic and a foreign firm are engaged in a takeover battle for a domestic competitor. Any merger or acquisition (M&A) must be approved by a welfare maximizing domestic competition agency which may or may not be prone to "economic patriotism". A...

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Mergers of Equals and Unequals

Smeets, Valerie; Ierulli, Kathryn; Gibbs, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

-specific human capital, corporate culture, power, or favoritism. We examine this issue using a sample of Danish mergers. Controlling …

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Redesigning Teams and Incentives in a Merger: An Experiment with Managers and Students

Montmarquette, Claude; Rullière, Jean-Louis; Villeval, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

After a merger, company officials face the challenge of making compensation schemes uniform and of redesigning teams with managers from companies with different incentives, work habits and recruiting methods. In this paper, we investigate the relationship between executive pay and performance...

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