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
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IFN Working Paper ; No. 906

Klassifikation
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
Buyouts
Employment
Financial Constraints
LBO
Private Equity
Restructuring
Risikokapital
Übernahme
Beschäftigung
Organisatorischer Wandel
Schweden

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Olsson, Martin
Tåg, Joacim
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)
(wo)
Stockholm
(wann)
2012

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Olsson, Martin
  • Tåg, Joacim
  • Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)

Entstanden

  • 2012

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