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Cross-border mergers and national champions in an integrating economy
Südekum, Jens (contributor) - 2006
We introduce a simple oligopolistic trade model with international transportation costs, and analyze the profitability and the social desirability of national vs. international mergers in relation to three different issues, (i) the level of trade freeness, (ii) the possibility of rent...
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The unemployment impact of product and labour market regulation : evidence from European countries
Piton, Céline; Rycx, François - 2018
This paper provides robust estimates of the impact of both product and labour market regulations on unemployment using data for 24 European countries over the period 1998-2013. Controlling for country-fixed effects, endogeneity and a large set of covariates, results show that product market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011871988
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Labour market regulation in the EU-15 : causes and consequences - a survey
Siebert, William S. (contributor) - 2006
efficiency arguments are questionable, because of the disemployment effects of strict regulation. Regulation is better explained … rationally desires strict regulation to divert rent from other groups such as the skilled workers and the unemployed. Legal … tradition. Given a predisposition to intervene, these countries begin with some degree of labour regulation, which then creates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003497972
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Competition and innovation : the breakup of IG Farben
Poege, Felix - 2022
The relationship between competition and innovation is difficult to disentangle, as exogenous variation in market structure is rare. The 1952 breakup of Germany's leading chemical company, IG Farben, represents such a disruption. After the Second World War, the Allies occupying Germany imposed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013358717
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Employment protection reforms, employment and the incidence of temporary jobs in Europe: 1995 - 2001
Kahn, Lawrence M. (contributor) - 2007
Using European Community Household Panel data for nine countries for 1996-2001, I investigate the impact of reforms of employment protection systems on employment and on temporary jobs for wage and salary workers. Individual fixed effects models are estimated, with the inclusion of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003652681
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Barriers to entry, deregulation and workplace training
Bassanini, Andrea (contributor);  … - 2007
European Labour Force Survey to investigate empirically the relationship between product market regulation and training …
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Redesigning teams and incentives in a merger : an experiment with managers and students
Montmarquette, Claude; Rullière, Jean-Louis; Villeval, … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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Post-merger restructuring of the labor force
Gehrke, Britta; Maug, Ernst; Obernberger, Stefan; … - 2021
We study the restructuring of the labor force after mergers and acquisitions. Overall restructuring is large. Net employment of targets declines by more than half within two years after acquisitions relative to a matched sample, and is concentrated in targets that close all establishments. There...
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Mergers and birth outcomes : evidence from maternity ward closures
Avdic, Daniel; Lundborg, Petter; Vikström, Johan - 2018
Evidence suggests that hospital mergers can reduce costs but less is known about their effects on patient outcomes. We study how a wave of mergers that led to the shutdown of one third of all Swedish maternity wards affected the health of mothers who gave birth and their newborns. Applying a...
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Wages, hires, and labor market concentration
Marinescu, Ioana; Ouss, Ivan; Pape, Louis-Daniel - 2020
.9%, as hypothesized by monopsony theory. Based on a simple merger simulation, we find that a merger between the top two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012213951