Smeets, Valerie; Ierulli, Kathryn; Gibbs, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
We examine the dynamics of post-merger organizational integration. Our basic question is whether there is evidence of … of pre-merger operations decreases turnover. This finding is inconsistent with the view that workers of the two firms … substitute for each other, creating efficiencies from merger. However, that result and our other findings are consistent with the …