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Do firms or workers drive the foreign acquisition wage premium?
Rösch, Marcus; Gerritse, Michiel; Karreman, Bas; Oort, … - 2022
We decompose the wage premium after foreign acquisitions of Dutch domestic firms into the constituent firm- and worker-level premia. Firm-level premia grow up to 3.5%, accounting for the majority of the acquisition premium. Worker-level premia by contrast, grow up to 1% and only materialize with...
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The entrepreneur's mode of entry : business takeover or new venture start?
Parker, Simon C.; Praag, Mirjam van - 2006
managerial experience, new venture start-up capital requirements and risk promote the takeover mode. Entrepreneurs whose parents …
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Sequential or non-sequential recruitment?
Ommeren, Jos van; Russo, Giovanni - 2004
This paper examines the recruitment process of firms. We test whether firms search sequentially or non …. We distinguish between different types of recruitment methods. We find that the sequential hiring is rejected for a … applications by job seekers. Informal recruitment methods tend to imply sequential search. …
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The attractiveness of temporary employment to reduce adjustment costs
Graaf-Zijl, Marloes de - 2005
In this paper I determine the importance of adjustment costs in employers' hiring decisions. Temporary work arrangements offer potential ways to avoid adjustment costs. I estimate employers willingness to pay for the characteristics of these work arrangements. I distinguish regular contracts,...
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The inefficient advantage of experience in the market for football managers
Peeters, Thomas; Szymanski, Stefan; Terviö, Marko - 2017
We study hiring in a labor market where worker ability can only be observed on-the-job, but quickly becomes public information after labor market entry. We show that firms in these markets have a socially inefficient incentive to hire low talented, experienced workers instead of more promising...
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How do start-up acquisitions affect the direction of innovation?
Dijk, Esmée S. R.; Moraga-González, José Luis; … - 2021
A start-up engages in an investment portfolio problem by choosing how much to invest in a "rival" project, which threatens the position of an existing incumbent, and a "non-rival" project. Anticipating its acquisition by the incumbent, the start-up strategically distorts its portfolio of...
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Start-up acquisitions and the entrant's and incumbent's innovation portfolios
Dijk, Esmée S. R.; Moraga-González, José Luis; … - 2023 - First draft: July 2023
An entrant and an incumbent engage in an investment portfolio problem where each chooses how to allocate its research funds across a rival market, where they compete with one another, and a non-rival market, where they do not interact. Allowing for acquisitions distorts both players' incentives...
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Worker flows in Russia
Grogan, Louise Anne - 2000
This paper investigates worker flows in Russia. Information onelapsed durationsof job tenure from the 1994-1996 Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS)and fromretrospective work history responses to the Institute for Labor Relations Research (ISITO) 1998 household survey is used. Competing...
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Where to go? : workers' reasons to quit and intra- versus interindustry job mobility
Delfgaauw, Josse - 2005
This paper employs survey data on the reasons to quit of Dutch job changers who entered or left a public sector job in 2001. We show that workers' reasons to quit their public sector job influence their decision to stay in or leave their industry of employment. A bad experience with, for...
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Pension rules and labour market mobility
Lammers, Marloes; Bloemen, Hans H.G.; Hochguertel, Stefan S. - 2017 - This version: June 2017
This paper makes use of a natural experiment to examine effects of potential capital losses and general attractiveness of pension schemes on employees' propensity to change jobs. On January 1st 2004, the two largest pension funds in the Netherlands, for civil servants and for the health care...
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