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Labor market concentration
Azar, José; Marinescu, Ioana; Steinbaum, Marshall - 2017
A product market is concentrated when a few firms dominate the market. Similarly, a labor market is concentrated when a few firms dominate hiring in the market. Using data from the leading employment website CareerBuilder.com, we calculate labor market concentration for over 8,000...
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U.S. V. Microsoft : Did Consumers Win?
Evans, David A.; Evans, David S.; Nichols, Albert L.; … - 2022
U.S. v. Microsoft and the related state suit filed in 1998 appear finally to have concluded. In a unanimous en banc decision issued in late June 2004, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected challenges to the remedies approved by the District Court in November 2002. The wave of follow-on...
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Concentration in US labor markets : evidence from online vacancy data
Azar, José; Marinescu, Ioana; Steinbaum, Marshall; … - 2018
Using data on the near-universe of online US job vacancies collected by Burning Glass Technologies in 2016, we calculate labor market concentration using the Herfindahl-Hirschman index (HHI) for each commuting zone by 6-digit SOC occupation. The average market has an HHI of 3,953, or the...
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The distribution of total work in the EU and US
Burda, Michael C. (contributor);  … - 2006
Using two time-diary data sets each for Germany, Italy the Netherlands and the U.S. from 1985-2003, we demonstrate that Americans work more than Europeans: 1) in the market; 2) in total (market and home production)-- there is no one-for-one tradeoff across countries in total work; 3) at unusual...
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Unequal pay or unequal employment? : A cross-country analysis of gender gaps
Olivetti, Claudia (contributor);  … - 2006
explore this idea across the US and EU by estimating gender gaps in potential wages. We recover information on wages for those … small in the US, the UK and most central and northern EU countries, and becomes sizeable in Ireland, France and southern EU …
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EU enlargement under continued mobility restrictions : consequences for the German labor market
Brenke, Karl; Yuksel, Mutlu; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2009
The numbers of migrants from the accessions countries have clearly increased since the enlargement of the EU in 2004 …. Following enlargement, the net inflow of EU8 immigrants has become 2.5 times larger than the four-year period before enlargement …. Poles constitute the largest immigrant group among the EU8 immigrants: since enlargement, 63% of all immigrants and 71% of …
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International differences in longevity and health and their economic consequences
Michaud, Pierre-Carl; Goldman, Dana P.; Lakdawalla, Darius - 2009
In 1975, 50 year-old Americans could expect to live slightly longer than their European counterparts. By 2005, American life expectancy at that age has diverged substantially compared to Europe. We find that this growing longevity gap is primarily the symptom of real declines in the health of...
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Work disability, work, and justification bias in Europe and the U.S.
Kapteyn, Arie; Smith, James P.; Soest, Arthur van - 2009
To analyze the effect of health on work, many studies use a simple self-assessed health measure based upon a question such as "do you have an impairment or health problem limiting the kind or amount of work you can do?" A possible drawback of such a measure is the possibility that different...
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Labor-market exposure as a determinant of attitudes toward immigration
Ortega, Francesc; Polavieja, Javier G. - 2009
This paper re-examines the role of labor-market competition as a determinant of attitudes toward immigration. We claim two main contributions. First, we use more sophisticated measures of the degree of exposure to competition from immigrants than previously done. Specifically, we focus on the...
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Sectoral explanations of employment in Europe : the role of services
D'Agostino, Antonello (contributor);  … - 2006
This paper investigates the determinants of the service sector employment share in the EU-15, for the aggregate service … achieving higher employment levels in Europe. This paper focuses on the role of barriers in the EU-15 which may have hindered …
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