Is job insecurity higher in leveraged buyouts?

This paper assesses whether job insecurity is higher in leveraged buyouts (LBOs) than elsewhere. It draws on matched employer-employee data from the British 2011 Workplace Employment Relations Study linked to data from the Centre for Management Buyout Research. The analysis finds no consistent evidence of higher job insecurity in LBOs as measured by workforce reduction practices (redundancy rates, job security/ no-compulsory redundancies policies and redundancy consultation), dismissal rates, labour use practices (non-permanent employment contracts and outsourcing), and employees’ job security perceptions. Job insecurity is no higher in either current or former LBOs than elsewhere. Contrary to what might be expected, it is also no higher in private equity-backed LBOs, management buy-ins, or high-debt LBOs, and there is only partial and weak evidence of higher job insecurity in short-hold LBOs. Job insecurity is also no higher in perfect storm LBOs (PE-backed management buy-ins that are short-holds with high-debt). Concerns over the negative implications of LBOs for job security thus appear misplaced

Lançamento do Livro: Descentralização e Desenvolvimento Local em Angola e Moçambique: Processos, Terrenos e Atores

A publicação resulta de um trabalho de investigação multidisciplinar de equipas e investigadores de diversos países - Angola, Brasil, França, Moçambique, Portugal. Ela foca, contudo, nos processos de descentralização e desconcentração em Angola e em Moçambique, em especial nos últimos anos. Os organizadores Yves-André Fauré e Cristina Udelsmann Rodrigues são respetivamente o coordenador geral do projeto CORUS (Coopération pour la Recherche Universitaire et Scientifique) financiado pelo ministério francês dos Negócios Estrangeiros e Europeus e a coordenadora da equipa deste projeto no Centro de Estudos Africanos (CEA-IUL) do ISCTE-IUL

De medii aevi studiis philologicis disputatio.

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Training course on decolonial activism at the university? Return on an activist-researcher collaboration.

The aim of this paper is to present the results of an action-research conducted at the university Saint-Louis Brussels as part of a training course on decolonial activism coordinated by an Afrodescendant association with the support of two research centres. In the Belgian university landscape, this academic intervention is quite original, not only because of the investment of the university space by activists, but also because of the whiteness of Belgian academia and the fact that most discussions on decolonisation take place outside the university environment. While decolonization came to be a buzzword in Belgium during the last two years, the university itself is barely addressed. Despite an increasing number of conferences, publications and cultural events involving researchers, the decolonial conversation is barely located within the university. The objective of this training course is to go beyond the fashionable effects of the term "decolonial", to render cutting-edge academic theoretical tools accessible to everyday people in their professionnal practices and discuss the possibilities of implementation of decolonial frameworks