Are foreign private equity buyouts bad for workers?

C-Tier
Journal: Economics Letters
Year: 2018
Volume: 172
Issue: C
Pages: 1-4

Score contribution per author:

0.503 = (α=2.01 / 2 authors) × 0.5x C-tier

α: calibrated so average coauthorship-adjusted count equals average raw count

Abstract

The media often cast foreign private equity firms as villains who gamble with local jobs. We use detailed registry data from Sweden to show that foreign buyouts have not affected workers’ labor market outcomes. But domestic buyouts have. They have increased unemployment incidence by a fifth, duration by a third, and lowered labor income by seven percent.

Technical Details

RePEc Handle
repec:eee:ecolet:v:172:y:2018:i:c:p:1-4
Journal Field
General
Author Count
2
Added to Database
2026-01-26