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Blessing or curse?: Domestic plants' survival and employment prospects after foreign acquisitions

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dc.creator Girma, Sourafel
dc.creator Görg, Holger
dc.date 2003
dc.date.accessioned 2013-10-16T06:21:03Z
dc.date.available 2013-10-16T06:21:03Z
dc.date.issued 2013-10-16
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10419/2937
dc.identifier ppn:362203741
dc.identifier ppn:362203741
dc.identifier.uri http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/2937
dc.description This paper investigates whether the acquisition of a domestic establishment by a foreign owner has any effects on the survival prospects and employment growth of that plant. The analysis uses plant level data for the UK electronics and food industries for the period 1980 to 1993. We control for possible endogeneity using a matched sample of firms and instrumental variables. Estimating a standard hazard model yields the result that foreign takeover reduces the liftetime of the acquired plant in both the electronics and food sectors. Estimations of the determinants of employment growth in domestic plants provide some evidence that the incidence of takeover reduces employment growth, in particular for unskilled labour in the electronics industry. There is no significant effect for the food sector, however.
dc.language eng
dc.publisher Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit Bonn
dc.relation IZA Discussion paper series 706
dc.rights http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen
dc.subject ddc:330
dc.subject foreign direct investment
dc.subject acquisitions
dc.subject survival
dc.subject employment growth
dc.subject Direktinvestition
dc.subject Elektronikindustrie
dc.subject Beschäftigungseffekt
dc.subject Großbritannien
dc.title Blessing or curse?: Domestic plants' survival and employment prospects after foreign acquisitions
dc.type doc-type:workingPaper


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