On Foreign Participation and Hiring Patterns After Privatization

Virgilio Galdo and Alberto Chong

No 1562, IDB Publications (Working Papers) from Inter-American Development Bank

Abstract: Critics of globalization claim that foreign ownership of privatized firms is linked to negative post-privatization labor outcomes, such as more firing and less hiring. This paper uses new firm-level data for a cross section of countries to test this idea and provides evidence that foreign purchasers of state-owned enterprises tend to acquire firms that were already better restructured before privatization. Additionally, this paper does not find evidence that foreign participation in privatized firms is linked to negative labor outcomes.

Keywords: WP-550 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006-03
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Journal Article: Foreign Participation and Hiring Patterns after Privatization (2009)
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