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This paper investigates the effects of domestic privatisation or foreign acquisition of Chinese State Owned Enterprises (SOEs) on employment growth, using firm level data for China and a combination of propensity score matching and difference-in-differences in order to identify the causal effect. Our results suggest that, controlling for output growth there is some evidence that domestic privatisation leads to contemporaneous reductions in employment growth compared to firms that did not undergo an ownership change. By contrast, there is some evidence that foreign acquisitions show higher employment growth in the post acquisition period than non-acquired SOEs.
Author(s): Gong Y, Maioli S, Gorg H
Publication type: Report
Publication status: Published
Series Title: IZA Discussion Papers
Year: 2006
Pages: 27
Print publication date: 01/11/2006
Source Publication Date: November 2006
Report Number: 2453
Institution: Institute for the Study of Labour
Place Published: Bonn
URL: http://papers.ssrn.com/Sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=942736