Using a linked employer-employee data set, this paper analyses the relationship between firm-profitability and wages …. Particular emphasis is given to the question of whether the sensitivity of wages to firm-specific rents varies with collective … wage determination without any bargaining coverage. Our findings indicate that individual wages are positively related to …

that both profitability and wages rise following acquisition, and firms that merge within the same industry division … experience larger increases in profitability and pay their workers higher wages than those engaged in unrelated acquisitions; i …This paper provides a systematic empirical analysis of the effects of merger and acquisition activity on profitability …

-1991. It finds that both profitability and wages rise following acquisition, and firms that merge within the same industry … division experience larger increases in profitability and pay their workers higher wages than those engaged in unrelated …This paper provides a systematic empirical analysis of the effects of merger and acquisition activity on profitability …