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Although private equity firms are often criticized for layoffs, little evidence exists regarding which employees lose their jobs and why. We argue that explanations for the job polarization process can also explain layoffs after buyouts. Buyouts reduce agency problems, which triggers automation,...
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a private equity buyout. Unemployment risk declines despite lower employment growth for continuing establishments … – attributable to hiring freezes rather than to layoffs – and a lack of change in firm level employment growth. A plausible …
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the real economic effect of buyouts: employment, wages, productivity, and long-run investments. Employment tend to …
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This paper considers the effects of union-bargained minimum wages on transitions into and out of employment in the … non-negligible employment effects (except for teenagers during 1993–98). The evidence regarding decreasing minimum wages …
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the period 1998-2004. Our results show that FDI has positive effects on employment growth. The positive effect of job …
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The "new electronics technology" in its various manifestations has been very much in the limelight during recent years. It has been associated with future mass unemployment or scary visions of a Brave New World, a grand discontinuity in economic and cultural development. Governments are worried...
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This paper examines the effects of collectively agreed increases in real minimum wages on employment transitions and … relatively fewer hours before being separated. Among the young, however, both employment and hours are negatively affected …. Labour-labour substitution seems to be important, since increases in minimum wages promote employment among workers with …
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