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We decompose the wage premium after foreign acquisitions of Dutch domestic firms into the constituent firm- and worker … acquisitions change firms beyond a workforce reshuffling. …
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Using detailed administrative data linking French firms and workers over the years 2002-2007, we document a distinct U-shaped pattern in worker-level wages surrounding the time their employer is acquired by a foreign firm, with a dip in earnings observed for several years before domestic firms...
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We compare wages in multinational enterprises (MNEs) versus domestic firms, the earnings of domestic firm workers with past, future and no MNE experience, and estimate how the presence of ex-MNE peers affects the earnings of domestic firm employees. The analysis relies on monthly panel data...
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In some countries around the world, the advantages of globalisation have been increasingly called into question recently. In particular, takeovers by foreign firms raise suspicions of technology theft and job cuts at the newly acquired local plant. By looking at Germany, as a large open economy,...
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form of foreign direct investments to widen domestic wage inequality. We show that foreign acquisitions of domestic firms …
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We estimate the effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) acquisitions on firm-average and worker-specific wages using …-long panel with 4,926 foreign acquisitions to match on pre-acquisition data and to control for fixed effects for firms, detailed … on average wages. In an extension to 983 foreign acquisitions subsequently divested to domestic owners, we find that much …
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-employee panel data containing 4,926 foreign acquisitions in Hungary. Matching on pre-acquisition data and controlling for fixed … for 983 foreign acquisitions later divested to domestic owners. We find positive effects for all worker types, occupations … strong cross-firm association of FDI wage premia with similar differentials in productivity. -- foreign acquisitions ; FDI …
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This paper estimates the impact of work environment health and safety practice on firm performance, and examines which firm-characteristic factors are associated with good work conditions. We use Danish longitudinal register matched employer-employee data, merged with firm business accounts and...
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We investigate differences in gender wage gaps between foreign-owned and domestically-owned firms in Poland, a country that has experienced large FDI inflows over the past three decades. In line with the findings of several other studies, we show that according to standard estimates of adjusted...
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Increasing attention has been given to the fact that some multinational enterprises shift income to tax haven countries, an activity that generates inequality in corporate taxation. Here, we examine how profit shifting relates to wage inequality. Using rich matched employer-employee data from...
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