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Mergers and acquisitions, employment, wages, and plant closures in the U.S. meat product industries
Author(s) -
Nguyen Sang V.,
Ollinger Michael
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
agribusiness
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.57
H-Index - 43
eISSN - 1520-6297
pISSN - 0742-4477
DOI - 10.1002/agr.20186
Subject(s) - econlit , meat packing industry , agribusiness , product (mathematics) , agricultural science , business , agricultural economics , economics , food science , biology , mathematics , agriculture , ecology , biochemistry , geometry , medline
The purpose of this article is to evaluate the impact of mergers and acquisitions (M&As) on wages, employment, and plant closures in the meat packing, prepared meat products, and poultry slaughter and processing industries during two merger periods, 1977–1987 and 1982–1992. The analysis relies on two balanced panel datasets of all plants owned by meat and poultry firms that existed in the 1977 Census of Manufacturing and survived until 1987 and another dataset of plants that existed in 1982 and survived until 1992. We find that (a) M&As are positively associated with wages in the meat packing and prepared meat products industries during 1977–1987, but not during 1982–1992; (b) changes in employment are positively related to M&As in all three meat and poultry industries during 1977–1987, but only in the poultry industry during 1982–1992; and (c) M&As are generally negatively associated with plant closures [EconLit. Citations: J630]. © 2009 wiley Periodicals, Inc.