Private Equity, Jobs, and Productivity

By Steven J. Davis, John C. Haltiwanger, Kyle Handley, Ron S. Jarmin, Josh Lerner, Javier Miranda. 2014

301 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Accounting, Economics and Econometrics

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/bf0908add288b2dedf67a6fa6cd86acc5d17ef0d

Citations in the corpus

• Corporate Governance and Pollution Externalities of Public and Private Firms* (2020, unknown): “Perhaps as a result, there is controversy about whether private equity buyouts have negative externalities like reducing employment (Davis et al., 2014).”
• What Do Private Equity Firms Say They Do (2016, unknown): “More recently, Davis et al. (2014) use U.S. Census data to study a large sample of U.S. buyouts and finds that they are associated with an improvement in productivity.”
• The Operational Consequences of Private Equity Buyouts: Evidence from the Restaurant Industry (2016, unknown): “4 Exceptions are papers that focus on non-financial performance margins such as innovation (Lerner, Sorensen and Stromberg 2012), and employment (Davis et al. 2013) 5 Few examples include serving food at an appropriate temperature, storing toxic substances properly, or sanitizing food surfaces.”
• Productivity, Restructuring, And The Gains From Takeovers (2013, unknown): “of employees pre-takeover following Davis et al. (2008). Specifically, I create three equally-sized age groups (young, middle-aged, and old) within each three-digit SIC industry.”
• Employment Protection and Takeovers (2017, unknown): “establishments acquired by private equity as found by Davis et al. (2014). Column (2) estimates the effect of EPL reforms on this association (EPL x Post Merger) and shows that, following the reforms, the reduction in employment following takeovers is moderated by about 5%, relative to an unconditio”
• Do private equity owners increase risk of financial distress and bankruptcy (2012, unknown): “…investment and operating performance (e.g., Davis et al., 2009; Guo et al., 2011; Kaplan, 1989), PE investment and employment (e.g., Cressy et al., 2007; Davis et al., 2008, 2009; Lichtenberg and Siegel, 1990) or PE investment and innovation (e.g., Lerner et al., 2011; Popov and Roosenboom, 2009).”
• Incentives to Innovate and the Decision to Go Public or Private (2014, unknown): “N ova School of B usiness and E conom ics on July 18, 2012 http://rfs.oxfordjournals.org/ D ow nloaded from [12:42 26/6/2012 OEP-hhs070.tex] Page: 9 1–45”