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Increasing wage inequality between similar workers plays an important role for overall inequality trends in industrialized societies. To analyze this pattern, we incorporate directed labor market search into a dynamic model of international trade with heterogeneous firms and homogeneous workers....
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From an active labor market policy perspective, start-up subsidies for unemployed individuals are very effective in improving long-term labor market outcomes for participants. From a business perspective, however, the assessment of these public programs is less clear since they might attract...
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non-MNEs, and purely domestic firms before foreign takeover. The results, controlling for possible endogeneity of the … horizontal or vertical. We also find robust positive employment growth effects only for exporters, and only if the takeover is …
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We analyze an oligopolistic market where a domestic and a foreign firm are engaged in a takeover battle for a domestic … of government. With an unbiased competition agency we find that the foreign takeover is more likely to occur the higher …
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The aim of this paper is to evaluate the causal effect of foreign acquisition on R&D intensity in targeted domestic firms. We are able to distinguish domestic multinationals and nonmultinationals, which allows us to investigate the fear that the change in ownership of domestic to foreign...
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We estimate the wage effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) with universal firm-level and linked employer-employee panel data containing 4,926 foreign acquisitions in Hungary. Matching on pre-acquisition data and controlling for fixed effects for firms and detailed worker groups, we find...
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It is still an open question when groups perform better than individuals in intellective tasks. We report that in an Acquiring a Company game, what prevailed when there was disagreement among group members was the median proposal and not the best proposal. This aggregation rule explains why...
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entrepreneurship. We distinguish between two distinct entrepreneurship entry modes: business takeover and new venture start-up. Using a … large and rich French data set, we find that small firm experience increases the likelihood for business takeover, whereas … management and same sector experience both increase the likelihood for new ventures. Our findings are relevant for policymakers …
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How much do developing countries benefit from foreign investment? We contribute to this question by comparing the employment and wage practices of foreign and domestic firms in Brazil, using detailed matched firm-worker panel data. In order to control for unobserved worker differences, we...
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different aspects of compensation policy and human resource management practices for distinguishing acquired and acquiring firms …. Second, it examines which individuals from which firms remain with the newly created entity after the takeover. Using a … active in the post-takeover period, with employees of the acquired firm being less likely to remain with the new entity in …
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