Worker-Plant Matching and Ownership Change

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Is ownership change an opportunity for new owners to make systematic changes in the workforce of the acquired plant? We document changes to the workforce along observable and unobservable dimensions of worker quality around ownership change using matched employer-employee data. We observe above average separations of workers around domestic acquisitions. This is associated with a decline in unobserved worker quality in the plant. Foreign acquisitions are not associated with above average worker turnover, instead new foreign owners share rents with the high skilled workers that are already in the plant before the acquisition.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 7906

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Economic Impacts of Globalization: Labor ; Multinational Firms; International Business ; Demand and Supply of Labor: General
• Subject: multinational firms ; acquisitions ; worker reallocation ; unobserved fixed effects

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Balsvik, Ragnhild ; Haller, Stefanie
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
• (where): Munich
• (when): 2019

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/207297
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