The Productivity and Wage Effects of Foreign Acquisition in the United Kingdom

By M. Conyon, Sourafel Girma, S. Thompson, Peter W. Wright. 2003

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Strategy and Management

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Cross-Border Acquisitions and Target Firms' Performance: Evidence from Japanese Firm-Level Data (2006, background): “In the case of out-in acquisitions, consistent with the preceding results of Fukao, Ito and Kwon (2005) and Conyon et al. (2002), we find that firms with higher TFP, a higher profit rate, a higher share of non-production workers, a higher export intensity, and of larger size are chosen as targets…”
The labor market effects of foreign owned firms (2004, background): “…whether this is the result of worker reallocation and changes in the firm’s human capital or as a result of increases in labor productivity (e.g., Conyon et al, 2002a, Girma and Gorg, 2003) 4 The main reason for this lack of knowledge is the difficulty in obtaining datasets that simultaneously…”
IS THERE REALLY A FOREIGN OWNERSHIP WAGE PREMIUM? EVIDENCE FROM MATCHED EMPLOYER-EMPLOYEE DATA (2007, neutral): “Aitken et al (1996), Doms and Jensen (1998), Conyon et al. (2002), Griffith (1999), Girma et al.”
Does FDI Bring Good Jobs to Host Countries? (2012, background): “In contrast, Conyon et al. (2002) conclude that acquisitions have a positive effect on the labor productivity of the acquired firms in the UK.”
THE POLITICS OF INVESTMENT PARTISANSHIP: AND THE SECTORAL ALLOCATION OF FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT (2008, positive): “After controlling for these effects, recent studies have found evidence that affiliates of MNCs in the United Kingdom indeed affect the return to labor: when compared to their domestic counterparts affiliates of foreign MNCs in the United Kingdom increase labor productivity by 13 percent, and pay hi”
Cultural Diversity and Plant‐Level Productivity (2015, background): “Similarly, foreign owned firms typically display a higher efficiency level (Conyon et al. 2002).”
Multinationals Productivity Advantage: Scale or Technology? (2007, positive): “The choice of these variables is motivated by the existing literature on ownership change, for example, Lichtenberg and Siegel (1987), McGuckin and Nguyen (1995), Conyon et al. (2002), Harris and Robinson (2002).”
Domestic versus cross-border acquisitions: which impact on the target firms’ performance? (2008, neutral): “( 2002 ) reached the conclusion that the labour productivity of UK acquired firms increased after a foreign take-over.”
The Effects of Greenfield FDI and Cross‐border M&As on Total Factor Productivity (2016, neutral): “13 The earlier study of Conyon et al. (2002), covering the period 1989-1994, shows that the labor productivity of UK firms which were acquired by foreign firms increased by 13 percent. In contrast, Harris and Robinson (2002) find some evidence that total factor productivity declined after the acquis”