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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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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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Foreign acquisition, plant survival, and employment growth

Bandick, Roger; Görg, Holger - 2009

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Analysing foreign market entry – The choice between greenfield investment and acquisitions

Görg, Holger - In: Journal of Economic Studies 27 (2000) September, pp. 165-181

This paper formalises the choice a firm has to face when entering a foreign market via FDI as between setting up an entirely new plant (greenfield investment) or acquiring an existing indigenous firm. We assume the existence of an asymmetric duopoly in the host country, and these duopolists face...

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Foreign acquisition, plant survival, and employment growth

Bandick, Roger; Görg, Holger - 2009

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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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Foreign Ownership, Returns to Scale and Productivity: Evidence from UK Manufacturing Establishments

Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

This paper calculates returns to scale and productivity growth in UK manufacturing establishments in the electronics and food industries. Our results show that foreign establishments tend to have lower returns to scale than their domestic counterparts. We also examine the effect of the...

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Evaluating the Foreign Ownership Wage Premium Using a Difference-in-Differences Matching Approach

Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

This paper seeks to identify the causal effect of foreign acquisitions on wages of skilled and unskilled workers, using … impacts result from acquisitions by EU multinationals. Also we discern some positive wage effects for unskilled workers … resulting from acquisitions by multinationals from the rest of the world. …

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Foreign acquisition, plant survival, and employment growth

Bandick, Roger; Görg, Holger - Nationalökonomisk Institut, Institut for Økonomi - 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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008566279