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Is there a preferential treatment for locals in the labor market? : evidence from takeovers
Colussi, Tommaso; Romano, Livio - 2016
of local employees retained after the takeover is negatively associated with the probability of closure of the acquiring …
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Roads leading to self-employment : comparing transgenerational entrepreneurs and self-made start-ups
Blumberg, Boris; Pfann, Gerard A. - 2015
This paper studies the event history of business foundation. Three theoretical concepts of human, financial and social capital are linked to investigate variations over time of people's decision processes to become self-employed. Data from a cohort of Dutch inhabitants born in 1939/1940 who have...
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The interplay between organizational structure, culture and employees' socio-emotional skills within their social capital
Koohborfardhaghighi, Somayeh; Altmann, Jörn; Heshmati, … - 2022
Organization theorists identify organizational social capital as one of the primary building blocks of a potentially powerful resource for improving organizational performance. However, little is known about the impact of the socio-emotional skills of the employees within their social capital...
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Should employment authorities worry about mergers and acquisitions?
Margolis, David N. (contributor) - 2006
. 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 … the short term after takeover than those of the acquiring firm and with the differences between the two types of firms …
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Firm consolidation and labor market outcomes
Dobbelaere, Sabien; McCormack, Grace; Prinz, Daniel; … - 2022
Using rich administrative data from the Netherlands, we study the consequences of firm consolidation for workers. For workers at acquired firms, takeovers are associated with a 8.5% drop in employment at the consolidated firm and a 2.6% drop in total labor income. These effects are persistent...
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Clean money in a dirty system : relationship networks and land rezoning in Queensland
Murray, Cameron K.; Frijters, Paul - 2015
We use a unique regulatory event that occurred in Queensland, Australia, from 2007- 2012, to examine the predictive power of landowner relationship networks and lobbying behaviour on successfully gaining value-enhancing rezoning. A State authority, the Urban Land Development Authority (ULDA),...
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The economic costs of mass surveillance : insights from Stasi spying in East Germany
Lichter, Andreas; Löffler, Max; Siegloch, Sebastian - 2015
Based on official records from the former East German Ministry for State Security, we quantify the long-term costs of state surveillance on social capital and economic performance. Using county-level variation in the spy density in the 1980s, we exploit discontinuities at state borders to show...
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Corruption, norm violation and decay in social capital
Banerjee, Ritwik - 2016
The paper studies the link between corruption and social capital (measured as trust), using data from a lab experiment. Subjects play either a harassment bribery game or a strategically identical but differently framed ultimatum game, followed by a trust game. In a second experiment, we elicit...
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On the interpretation of world values survey trust question : global expectations vs. local beliefs
Banerjee, Ritwik - 2016
How should we interpret the World Values Survey (WVS) trust question? We conduct an experiment in India, a low trust country, to correlate the WVS trust question with trust decisions in an incentivized Trust Game. Evidence supports findings from one strand of the fractured literature - the WVS...
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Social capital, entrepreneurship and living standards : differences between immigrants and the native born
Roskruge, Matthew; Poot, Jacques; King, Laura - 2016
Both migrant entrepreneurship and social capital are topics which have attracted a great deal of attention. However, relatively little econometric analysis has been done on their interrelationship. In this paper we first consider the relationship between social capital and the prevalence of...
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