from Sweden to show that foreign buyouts have not affected workers' labor market outcomes. But domestic buyouts have. They …The media often cast foreign private equity firms as villains who gamble with local jobs. We use detailed registry data …

from Sweden to show that foreign buyouts have not affected workers' labor market outcomes. But domestic buyouts have. They …The media often cast foreign private equity firms as villains who gamble with local jobs. We use detailed registry data …

, depending on buyout type and external conditions. Employment at target firms shrinks 13% over two years in buyouts of publicly …We examine thousands of U.S. private equity (PE) buyouts from 1980 to 2013, a period that saw huge swings in credit … market tightness and GDP growth. Our results show striking, systematic differences in the real-side effects of PE buyouts …