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European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Dublin Foundation)

 

The impact of investment funds on restructuring practices and employment levels [8 October 2010]

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/publications/htmlfiles/ef1064.htm

or

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/pubdocs/2010/64/en/1/EF1064EN.pdf

[full-text, 107 pages]



Author:           

Gospel, Howard; Haves, Jakob; Pendleton, Andrew; Vitols, Sig; Wilke, Peter; Catero, Bruno; Duman, Anil; Dunin-Wasowicz, Stefan; Engelen, Ewald; Korpi, Tomas; Bacon, Nick; Wright, Mike

 

Summary:       

One feature of the global economy in recent years has been the increasing number and importance of new investment funds (private equity (PE), hedge funds (HFs), and sovereign wealth funds (SWFs)), which are sometimes referred to as alternative investment funds (AIFs). This increase has paralleled fundamental changes in financial markets and has generated heated debates on the impact of these funds on restructuring practices, employment levels and industrial relations. This report present the results of a project that brought together researchers from several European countries to assess the effects of investment funds on labour outcomes.

 

Contents

1. Introduction

2. Analysing new investment funds

3. The issues: analysing impacts on restructuring and employment levels

4. Links to labour outcomes: findings from existing research

5. The country cases

6. Analysis and discussion

7. The policy debate regarding the regulation of investment funds

8. Conclusions

9. References

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