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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 … EU or firms of other nationalities. For unskilled workers, there are positive post acquisition wage effects from take-overs …

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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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Technology Transfer from Acquisition FDI and the Absorptive Capacity of Domestic Firms: An Empirical Investigation

Girma, Sourafel - In: Open Economies Review 16 (2005) 2, pp. 175-187

This paper seeks to establish the role of absorptive capacity in technology transfer from acquisition FDI in U.K. manufacturing. It finds that the rate of productivity change following a foreign take-over is higher the higher the pre-acquisition productivity level of the acquired firm,...

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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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Multinationals' Productivity Advantage: Scale or Technology

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

The first aim of this paper is to decompose the productivity advantage of foreign multinationals into two components: the technology and scale effect. The second aim is to analyse the causal relationship between foreign ownership and these two components of productivity growth. We do so by...

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Blessing or Curse? Domestic Plants' Survival and Employment Prospects After Foreign Acquisition

Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

This Paper investigates whether the acquisition of a domestic establishment by a foreign owner has any effects, positive or negative, on the survival prospects and employment growth of that plant. The empirical analysis uses data from the Annual Respondents Database (ARD) for the UK electronics...

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Foreign ownership, returns to scale and productivity: Evidence from UK manufacturing establishments

Girma, Sourafel; Gorg, Holger - Royal Economic Society - RES - 2003

This paper focuses on the pattern of 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. Moreover, foreign...

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Evaluating the foreign ownership wage premium using a difference-indifferences matching approach

Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger - Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS), … - 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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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

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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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