Family Ownership, Workplace Closure and the Recession

Alex Bryson, Harald Dale-Olsen () and Trygve Gulbrandsen ()
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Harald Dale-Olsen: Institute for Social Research, Oslo
Trygve Gulbrandsen: Institute for Social Research, Oslo

No 9877, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: Using nationally representative Norwegian data we show family-owned workplaces are less likely to close than observationally similar non-family-owned workplaces. But this changed during the Crisis when the family businesses' closure hazard soared. This hike in 2009 was not related to performance or the observed capital structure. Whereas bad performance has a tendency to kill non-family businesses regardless of the equity level, a need for fresh capital has a tendency to kill family businesses regardless of performance. We conclude that family firms suffered from a lack of credit during the Crisis, something that policy-makers should address before the next economic downturn.

Keywords: family ownership; closure; financial performance; debt; leverage (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G32 G34 J65 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 26 pages
Date: 2016-04
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