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| Title: | | The Wage Premium of Foreign Ownership: Evidence from European Mergers and Acquisitions  |
| Authors: | | Oberhofer, Harald Stöckl, Matthias Winner, Hannes |
| Issue Date: | | 2012 |
| Citation: | | [Journal:] Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal [Volume:] 6 [Issue:] 2012-21 [Pages:] 1-27 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Economics 2012-21 |
| Abstract: | | The authors provide evidence on the impact of foreign ownership on labor market outcomes analyzing pay differences between foreign-acquired and domestically owned firms. For this purpose, they use firm-level data from 16 European countries over the time period 19992006. Combing propensity score matching techniques with difference-in-differences (DID) estimators the authors estimate positive wage premia of cross-border merger and acquisitions (M&As), suggesting that foreign-acquired firms exhibit higher short-run (post-acquisition) wage growth than their domestic counterparts. The observed wage disparities are most pronounced for low paying firms (with average wages below the median) which are typically located in Eastern European transition economies. |
| Subjects: | | foreign Ownership mergers and acquisitions wage effects propensity score matching difference-in-differences estimator |
| JEL: | | C21 F15 G34 J31 |
| Persistent Identifier of the first edition: | | doi:10.5018/economics-ejournal.ja.2012-21 |
| Creative Commons License: | |  |
| Document Type: | | Article |
| Appears in Collections: | | Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal - Journal Articles
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