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What are the Wage and Employment Consequences of Leveraged Buyouts, Private Equity and Acquisitions in the UK?
Amess, Kevin - 2008
This paper provides the first comparative examination of the consequences of leveraged buyouts (LBOs) and traditional corporate acquisitions on employment and wages using a uniquely constructed panel data set covering the period 1996-2006. Employing propensity score matching combined with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012723110
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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/10011439152
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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
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Exports, International Investment, and Plant Performance: Evidence from a Non-Parametric Test
Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger; Strobl, Eric - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 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/10005068656
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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
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Outsourcing, foreign ownership and productivity : evidence from UK establishment level data
Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger - 2003
's productivity. We compare outsourcing in domestic with foreign-owned establishments. Our empirical results suggest that high wages …-owned firms have higher levels of outsourcing than domestic establishments. In the productivity analysis we find that an … establishment's outsourcing intensity is positively related to its labour productivity and total factor productivity growth and that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011438842
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Do Stock Markets Value Firm-Level Technical Efficiency? Some UK Evidence
Girma, Sourafel; Amess, Kevin - Department of Economics, Leicester University - 2004
An empirical model determining the relationship between changes in firm-level productivity and changes in firm value is …: (1) changes in technical efficiency and labour productivity are reflected in changes in the value of manufacturing firms … but technical efficiency and labour productivity do not. For manufacturing firms, the evidence is consistent with the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005422701
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Creating Jobs Through Public Subsidies: An Empirical Analysis
Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger; Strobl, Eric Albert; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
This paper analyses the impact of government grants on labour demand using plant level data for manufacturing industry in Ireland. Our data consists of a large sample of plants and their complete grant history. We provide evidence that additional employment is created over and above the level...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761769
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Creating Jobs Through Public Subsidies:An Empirical Analysis
Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger; Strobl, Eric; Walsh, Frank - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
This paper analyses the impact of government grants on labour demand using plant leveldata for manufacturing industry in Ireland. Our data consists of a large sample of plants andtheir complete grant history...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861409
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THE IMPACT OF MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS ONPROFITABILITY AND EMPLOYEE REMUNERATIONIN UK MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY
Conyon, Martin J.; Girma, Sourafel; Thompson, Steve; … - University <Nottingham> / Department of Economics - 2000
This paper provides a systematic empirical analysis of the effects of merger and acquisitionactivity on profitability and firm level employee remuneration in the United Kingdom, using a speciallyconstructed database for the period 1979-1991...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005869217