Arbeitspapier
Private Equity and Employees
Using linked employer-employee data from Sweden, a difference-in-difference approach, and 201 private equity buyouts undertaken between 1998 and 2004, we show that unemployment risk declines and labor income increases for employees in the wake of a private equity buyout. Unemployment risk declines despite lower employment growth for continuing establishments attributable to hiring freezes rather than to layoffs and a lack of change in firm level employment growth. A plausible explanation is relaxed financial constraints: the effects are strongest in industries dependent on external finance for growth, for non-divisional buyouts, and for buyouts just prior to 2001.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: IFN Working Paper ; No. 906
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Investment Banking; Venture Capital; Brokerage; Ratings and Ratings Agencies
Financing Policy; Financial Risk and Risk Management; Capital and Ownership Structure; Value of Firms; Goodwill
Mergers; Acquisitions; Restructuring; Voting; Proxy Contests; Corporate Governance
Demand and Supply of Labor: General
Firm Performance: Size, Diversification, and Scope
- Thema
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Buyouts
Employment
Financial Constraints
LBO
Private Equity
Restructuring
Risikokapital
Übernahme
Beschäftigung
Organisatorischer Wandel
Schweden
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Olsson, Martin
Tåg, Joacim
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)
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Stockholm
- (wann)
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2012
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Olsson, Martin
- Tåg, Joacim
- Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)
Entstanden
- 2012