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Jakob Beuschlein

Jakob Beuschlein is a Postdoctoral researcher at the Rockwool Foundation Berlin. His research studies the role of firms in labor markets.
Antitrust and Competition

Swedish Workers Lose Out In M&A Even When CEOs Gain

Jakob Beuschlein
Summary Teaser: In a new working paper, Jakob Beuschlein, Jósef Sigurdsson, and Horng Chern Wong find that workers at acquired firms in Sweden experience wage cuts. Rather than from the increased monopsony power of employers, these wage cuts are due to rent redistribution toward higher CEO pay.

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