Chava, Sudheer; Oettl, Alexander; Singh, Manpreet; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Using an administrative payroll dataset for 2.6 million retail workers, we find that the staggered rollout of a major e …-commerce firm's fulfillment centers reduces traditional retail workers' income in geographically proximate counties by 2.4%. Wages …. In aggregate, the retail sector loses 938 jobs per county per quarter, and the transportation-warehousing sector (food …