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The growing number of cross-border acquisitions has in many countries raised concerns about labor demand consequences …
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The growing number of cross-border acquisitions has in many countries raised concerns about labor demand consequences …
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acquisitions. We distinguish between foreign greenfields and takeovers and compare foreign owned firms with both domestic …
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-multinational firms. We examine the impact of acquisitions on wage dispersion in Sweden using a large matched employer-employee data set …. Foreign acquisitions of Swedish firms increase wage dispersion by increasing wages for high-skilled workers. The positive …
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Engagement in foreign markets can have an impact on firm organization and on the type of occupations that a firm needs. We examine the effect of globalization on the occupational mix using detailed Swedish data that cover all firms and a representative sample of the labor force for 1997-2005. We...
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This paper reports estimates of the productivity premium of German firms exporting to the Euro‐zone and beyond, controlling for unobserved time‐invariant firm‐specific effects. Furthermore, it tests for self‐selection of more productive firms into exporting beyond the Euro‐zone. The...
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This paper makes three contributions. (1) It summarizes in tabular form a recent literature made of 36 micro-econometric studies for 16 different countries on the relationship between export destination and firm performance. (2) It reports estimates of the productivity premium of German firms...
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