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

Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger - 2021

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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Exports, international investment, and plant performance: evidence from a non-parametric test

Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger; Strobl, Eric - 2003

This paper compares the performance of purely domestic plants, domestic exporters and domestic multinationals. For our empirical analysis we utilise a non-parametric approach based on the principle of first order stochastic dominance. We find that the distributions for multinationals dominate...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265597

Exports, international investment, and plant performance : evidence from a non-parametric test

Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger; Strobl, Eric - 2003

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Exports, International Investment, and Plant Performance : Evidence from a Non-Parametric Test

Girma, Sourafel - 2008

This paper compares the performance of purely domestic plants, domestic exporters and domestic multinationals. For our empirical analysis we utilise a non-parametric approach based on the principle of first order stochastic dominance. Comparing the cumulative distributions of the measures of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012726672

Do Wages Rise or Fall Following Merger?

Conyon, Martin J.; Girma, Sourafel; Thompson, Steve; … - 2008

acquisitions. This is, in part, the result of an increase in the efficiency with which labour is used following related acquisition …

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

Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger - 2021

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 ownership structure, technology upgrading and exports : evidence from Chinese firms

Girma, Sourafel; Gong, Yundan; Görg, Holger; … - 2012

We examine the role of foreign ownership structure in stimulating technology and skill upgrading, and exporting in Chinese manufacturing firms that were taken over by foreign owners. The analysis considers the period 2001 to 2007. We use a propensity score reweighted least squares estimation to...

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Corporate acquisitions and firm-level uncertainty : domestic versus cross-border deals

Bai, Ye; Girma, Sourafel; Riaño, Alejandro - 2020

This paper studies the impact of corporate acquisitions - both domestic and cross-border - on the uncertainty faced by … difference-in-differences to control for the endogenous selection of firms into buying other companies. We find that acquisitions … determined by the geographic scope of the acquisitions firms undertake. We find that the impact of acquisitions on firm …

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Foreign direct investment, spillovers and absorptive capacity: evidence from quantile regressions

Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger - 2005

This paper focuses on the role of absorptive capacity in determining whether or not domestic firms benefit from productivity spillovers from FDI using establishment level data for the UK. We allow for different effects of FDI on establishments located at different quantiles of the productivity...

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Foreign direct investment, spillovers and absorptive capacity: Evidence from quantile regressions

Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger - 2005

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