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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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Firm-size wage gaps along the formal-informal divide : theory and evidence
Balkan, Binnur; Tumen, Semih - 2015 - Forthcoming in: Industrial Relations, 2016
Observationally equivalent workers are paid higher wages in larger firms. This fact is often named as the "firm-size wage gap" and is regarded as a key empirical puzzle. Using micro-level data from Turkey, we document a new stylized fact: the firm-size wage gap is more pronounced for informal...
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Health insurance benefit mandates and the firm-size distribution
Bailey, James; Webber, Douglas A. - 2015
By 2010, the average US state had passed 37 health insurance benefit mandates (laws requiring health insurance plans to cover certain additional services). Previous work has shown that these mandates likely increase health insurance premiums, which in turn could make it more costly for firms to...
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Patterns of integration : low educated people and their jobs in Norway, Italy and Hungary
Köllő, János - 2013
The paper looks at how the distribution of jobs by complexity and firms' willingness to hire low educated labor for jobs of different complexity contribute to unskilled employment in Norway, Italy and Hungary. In search of how unqualified workers can attend complex jobs, it compares their...
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Human capital and the size distribution of firms
Gomes, Pedro; Kuehn, Zoë - 2014
Countries that have relatively fewer workers with a secondary education have smaller firms. The shortage of skilled workers limits the growth of more productive firms. Two factors influence the availability of skilled workers: i) the education level of the workforce and ii) large public sectors...
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The firm size distribution across countries and skill-biased change in entrepreneurial technology
Poschke, Markus - 2014
How and why does the firm size distribution differ across countries? Using two datasets covering more than 30 countries, this paper documents that several features of the firm size distribution are strongly associated with income per capita: the entrepreneurship rate and the fraction of small...
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Size of training firms : the role of firms, luck, and ability in young workers' careers
Müller, Steffen; Neubäumer, Renate - 2016
This paper analyzes how life-cycle unemployment of former apprentices depends on the size of the training firm. We start from the hypotheses that the size of training firms reduces long-run cumulated unemployment exposure, e.g. via differences in training quality and in the availability of...
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Job satisfaction, structure of working environment and firm size
Tansel, Aysıt - 2022
Employees' wellbeing is important to the firms. Analysis of job satisfaction may give insight into various aspect of labor market behavior, such as worker productivity, absenteeism and job turn over. Little empirical work has been done on the relationship between structure of working environment...
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Misallocation and inequality
Guner, Nezih; Ruggieri, Alessandro - 2022
For a large set of countries, we document how the labor earnings inequality varies with GDP per capita. As countries get richer, the mean-to-median ratio and the Gini coefficient decline. Yet, this decline masks divergent patterns: while inequality at the top of the earnings distribution falls,...
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