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 … for 983 foreign acquisitions later divested to domestic owners. We find positive effects for all worker types, occupations …

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 examine both foreign acquisitions and divestments and worker mobility, including …

MFP gains from privatization are decreasing in pre-privatization MFP. The relatively few cases in which foreign investors … data permit us to track the privatization process and to estimate the impact of privatization within industry-year cells … majority privatized versus state-owned firms. The gap increases with time since privatization, reaching about 15-17% five years …

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 … foreign attempts to acquire domestic firms. …

This paper analyses the changes in the size distribution of wages in Poland over a decade of transition. Until about … relatively constant level of inequality. Privatisation was the main force tending to increase wage inequality, partly because it … inequality seems to have increased since 2000. Suggestively, whereas privatisation has continued, the decline in participation …

This paper investigates the effects of domestic privatisation or foreign acquisition of Chinese State Owned Enterprises … post acquisition period than non-acquired SOEs. -- Privatisation ; foreign acquisition ; employment growth ; difference-in-differences … that domestic privatisation leads to contemporaneous reductions in employment growth compared to firms that did not undergo …

privatization, competition and foreign investment. We also test hypotheses positing that only firms near the efficiency frontier … privatization, competition and foreign investment. We also test hypotheses positing that only firms near the efficiency frontier … find that privatization to domestic owners did not markedly improve the efficiency of firms; domestic firms are not …

potential endogeneity and omitted variables biases. -- Privatization ; financial reform ; trade liberalization ; foreign direct …This paper investigates the role of structural reforms - privatization, financial reform and trade liberalization as … financial liberalization and privatization. These results are robust to different measures of reforms, split samples, and …