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Evaluating the causal effects of foreign acquisition on domestic skilled and unskilled wages

Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger - 2003

increase in the wage rate following an acquisition by a US firm, while no such effect is discernible following acquisitions by …

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Blessing or curse?: Domestic plants' survival and employment prospects after foreign acquisitions

Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger - 2003

This paper investigates whether the acquisition of a domestic establishment by a foreign owner has any effects on the survival prospects and employment growth of that plant. The analysis uses plant level data for the UK electronics and food industries for the period 1980 to 1993. We control for...

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The Effects of Foreign Owned Firms on the Labor Market

Almeida, Rita K. - 2003

Cross sectional evidence shows that foreign firms have a more educated workforce and pay higher wages than domestic firms. These results do not necessarily imply that foreign direct investment translates into higher demand for educated workers or higher wages, however, since foreign investment...

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Foreign acquisition, plant survival, and employment growth

Bandick, Roger; Görg, Holger - 2009

This paper analyses the effect of foreign acquisition on survival probability and employment growth of target plant using data on Swedish manufacturing plants during the period 1993-2002. An improvement over previous studies is that we take into account firm level heterogeneity by separating the...

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Foreign Acquisition, Plant Survival, and Employment Growth

Bandick, Roger; Görg, Holger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

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The Effects of Foreign Owned Firms on the Labor Market

Almeida, Rita - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

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Blessing or Curse? Domestic Plants' Survival and Employment Prospects after Foreign Acquisitions

Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

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Evaluating the Causal Effects of Foreign Acquisition on Domestic Skilled and Unskilled Wages

Girma, Sourafel; Goerg, Holger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

increase in the wage rate following an acquisition by a US firm, while no such effect is discernible following acquisitions by …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566820

Cross-border mergers and national champions in an integrating economy

Suedekum, Jens - 2006

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 appropriation on world markets, and (iii) direct synergy effects of mergers …. Cross-border M&A is privately and socially more attractive than domestic mergers. National competition policy may be too …

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Redesigning Teams and Incentives in a Merger : An Experiment with Managers and Students

Montmarquette, Claude; Rullière, Jean-Louis; Villeval, … - 2004

After a merger, company officials face the challenge of making compensation schemes uniform and of redesigning teams with managers from companies with different incentives, work habits and recruiting methods. In this paper, we investigate the relationship between executive pay and performance...

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