Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/308421 
Year of Publication: 
2024
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 11525
Publisher: 
CESifo GmbH, Munich
Abstract: 
This paper studies how foreign acquisitions affect firms' internal labor organization, particularly occupational switching. This focus is inspired by new stylized facts we document using linked employer-employee data from Denmark: while the total number of occupations and hierarchical layers in firms remains stable, a significant share of firms simultaneously add and drop occupations and layers each year. Applying a dynamic two-way fixed effects matching estimator, we find that foreign acquisitions lead to significant reorganization within firms: though the number of layers or occupations remains unchanged, firms exhibit substantial occupational churning among existing workers, especially among higher-paid employees.
Subjects: 
occupation switching
firm organization
foreign acquisitions
JEL: 
D22
D24
F23
G34
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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