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Private Equity, Layoffs, and Job Polarization

Olsson, Martin; Tåg, Joacim - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2015

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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Private Equity and Employees

Olsson, Martin; Tåg, Joacim - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2012

Using linked employer-employee data from Sweden, a difference-in-difference approach, and 201 private equity buyouts undertaken between 1998 and 2004, we show that unemployment risk declines and labor income increases for employees in the wake of a private equity buyout. Unemployment risk...

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Privatization, Investment and Ownership Efficiency

Friberg, Richard; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008

We provide a model that explains the following empirical observations: i) private ownership is more efficient than public ownership, ii) privatizations are associated with increases in efficiency and iii) the increase in efficiency predates the privatization. The two key mechanisms explaining...

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Exchange-Rate and Interest-Rate Driven Competitive Advantages in the EMU

Andrén, Niclas; Oxelheim, Lars - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2002

divergence should urge on a wave of restructuring in the EMU, conditioned upon adequate policy responses. The worst-case scenario …

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Privatization and Restructuring in Concentrated Markets

Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2003

This paper examines the restructuring of state assets in markets deregulated by privatizations and investment … liberalizations. We show that the government has a stronger incentive to restructure than the buyer: A firm restructuring only takes … into account how much its own profit will increase. The government internalizes that restructuring increases the sales …

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Investment Liberalization - Who Benefits from Cross-Border Mergers & Acquisitions?

Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2001

some of the MNEs' initial rents. Moreover, other policies used in times of investment liberalization, such as restructuring …

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Arbetsmarknad och strukturomvandling i de nordiska länderna

Holmlund, Bertil - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1981

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Centralized Bargaining, Multi-Tasking, and Work Incentives

Lindbeck, Assar; Snower, Dennis J. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2012

The paper examines the implications of an important aspect of the ongoing reorganization of work - the move from occupational specialization toward multi-tasking - for centralized wage bargaining. The analysis shows how, on account of this reorganization, centralized bargaining becomes...

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Corporate Distress and Restructuring with Macroeconomic Fluctuations: The Cases of GM and Ford

Oxelheim, Lars; Wihlborg, Clas - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2009

to restructuring by decomposing default predictions into "intrinsic" and macroeconomic factors. We apply a method …

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