Multinational firms, acquisitions and job tasks

Heyman, Fredrik; Nilsson-Hakkala, Katariina; Sjöholm, Fredrik

doi:10.1016/j.euroecorev.2013.12.003

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“…We believe that this underrepresentation of smaller firms in the sample analysed by Nilsson Hakkala et al (2014) contributes significantly to explaining the difference in the results between their study and ours, but a more definite answer can only be obtained if the complete registers on individuals' occupations and educational attainments from 2001 onwards are used. This question is outside the scope of our present study.…”

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“…3.1, a complete register on individuals' occupations in Sweden is only available from 2001. This means that Nilsson Hakkala et al (2014) were obliged to use a dataset, the Survey of Wages and Salaries from Statistics Notes: The estimates are based on conditional difference-in-differences matching using an Epanechnikov kernel with a bandwidth of 0.001. For details on the specification of the propensity scores, see Sect.…”

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“…Finally, it is worth noting that foreigners tend to acquire establishments with high labour productivity both in the electronics and in the food sector. 40 An indication that this sample of firms is quite different from the total population of firms is that in Table 2 of Nilsson Hakkala et al (2014), there is no difference between MNEs and non-MNEs in the share of employees with higher education. This is in stark contrast to our data, where in Fig.…”

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“…Her sample also contains a large share of small and medium-sized enterprises, and her results suggest that firms involved in M&As strengthen their technological competencies. 11 Girma and Görg (2004) for the UK, Almeida (2007) Portugal, Huttunen (2007) Finland, and based on Swedish data Hansson (2009) andNilsson Hakkala et al (2014).…”

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Using Swedish microdata, we find no evidence for the concerns circulating in the public debate that foreign acquisitions lead to reductions in both R&D expenditures and high-skilled activities in targeted domestic firms for either MNEs or non-MNEs. Previous studies have only focused on larger firms. In this paper, we are able to study the impact on smaller firms (fewer than 50 employees), which is important because 90% of the firms acquired by foreign enterprises meet this criterion. For this group of firms, there is no information on R&D, but by using the register of educational attainment, we obtain data on the share of high-skilled labour in all Swedish firms, irrespective of size. Interestingly, we find that among smaller firms, foreign enterprises tend to acquire high-productive, skill-intensive firms (cherry-picking). After the acquisitions, skill upgrading appears in acquired smaller, non-MNE firms, particularly in the service sector.

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“…The use of these German data is possible because the German work survey codified by Becker, Ekholm, and Muendler () can be converted into the ISCO‐88 classification of the occupations at the 2‐digit level that we have in the Finnish register data on individuals. This approach is identical to that employed by Nilsson Hakkala, Heyman, and Sjöholm () in their analysis of the offshoring activities of Swedish firms. Nonroutine tasks involve nonrepetitive work methods and creative problem solving; such tasks cannot be programmed as simple rules.…”

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Outsourcing, Occupational Restructuring, and Employee Well‐Being: Is There a Silver Lining?

Böckerman

Maliranta

2013

Industrial Relations

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TiivistelmäTutkimuksessa tarkastellaan toimintojen ulkoistamisen ja tehtävärakenteiden muutosten vaikutuksia työntekijöiden itsensä kokemiin työoloihin. Työoloja mitattiin useilla eri mittareilla. Tulokset perustuvat poikkeuksellisen rikkaaseen yhdistettyyn aineistoon. Tarkastelu osoittaa, että ulkoistaminen ulkomaille lisää työtehtävien häviämistä yrityksissä. Tämän ulkomaille ulkoistamisen suoran vaikutuksen lisäksi eriteltiin myös ulkoistamisen epäsuoria vaikutuksia niihin työntekijöi-hin, jotka onnistuvat säilyttämään työpaikkansa sellaisessa yrityksessä, joka on ulkoistanut toimintojaan. Ulkoistamisen epäsuorat vaikutukset ovat tulosten valossa suoria vaikutuksia huomattavasti heikompia. Tämän lisäksi epäsuorat vaikutukset työntekijöiden kokemaan hyvinvointiin eivät ole yksioikoisen negatiivisia. Ulkoistaminen toisiin teollisuusmaihin esim. parantaa selvästi suomalaisten työntekijöiden mahdollisuuksia edetä urallaan.

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The jobs at risk from globalization: the French case

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Rev World Econ

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Multinational firms, acquisitions and job tasks

Cited by 28 publications

References 31 publications

Effects of foreign acquisitions on R&D and high-skill activities

Effects of foreign acquisitions on R&D and high-skill activities

Outsourcing, Occupational Restructuring, and Employee Well‐Being: Is There a Silver Lining?

The jobs at risk from globalization: the French case

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