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The effect of franchise no-poaching restrictions on worker earnings

Callaci, Brian; Gibson, Matthew; Pinto, Sérgio; … - 2023

We evaluate the impact of the Washington State Attorney General's enforcement campaign against employee no-poaching clauses in franchising contracts, which unfolded from 2018 through early 2020. Implementing a staggered difference-in-differences research design using Burning Glass Technologies...

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Labor market concentration and competition policy across the Atlantic

Araki, Satoshi; Bassanini, Andrea; Green, Andrew S.; … - 2022

Drawing upon data from the largest cross-country study of labor market concentration to date, this paper analyzes the level of concentration of labor input markets in Europe and North America and provides a comparative perspective on employers' monopsony power. It explores the characteristics of...

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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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Interacting product and labor market regulation and the impact of immigration on native wages

Prantl, Susanne; Spitz-Oener, Alexandra - 2014

Does interacting product and labor market regulation alter the impact of immigration on wages of competing native … workers? Focusing on the large, sudden and unanticipated wave of migration from East to West Germany after German … labor market: one segment without product and labor market regulation, to which standard immigration models best apply, one …

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Add-on pricing, naive consumers, and the hidden welfare costs of education

Kosfeld, Michael; Schüwer, Ulrich - 2011

is sufficiently well informed about consumer and firm behavior. -- bounded rationality ; competition ; regulation …

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Regulatory barriers and entry in developing economies

Bennett, John (contributor); Estrin, Saul (contributor) - 2006

We model entry by entrepreneurs into new markets in developing economies with regulatory barriers in the form of licence fees and bureaucratic delay. Because laissez faire leads to 'excessive' entry, a licence fee can increase welfare by discouraging entry. However, in the presence of a licence...

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Analyzing the extent and influence of occupational licensing on the labor market

Kleiner, Morris M.; Krueger, Alan B. - 2011

This study examines the extent and influence of occupational licensing in the U.S. using a specially designed national labor force survey. Specifically, we provide new ways of measuring occupational licensing and consider what types of regulatory requirements and what level of government...

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The role of regulation and regional government quality for high growth firms : the good, the bad, and the ugly

Amoroso, Sara; Herrmann, Benedikt; Kritikos, Alexander - 2023

High growth firms (HGFs) are important for job creation and considered to be precursors of economic growth. We investigate how product- and labor-market regulations, as well as the quality of regional governments that implement these regulations, affect HGF development across European regions....

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Economic integration and state capacity : evidence from the Eastern enlargement of the European Union

Bruszt, László; Campos, Nauro - 2018

We investigate whether and how economic integration increases state capacity. This important relationship has not been studied in detail so far. We put together a conceptual framework to guide our analysis that highlights what we call the Montesquieu, Weber and Smith channels. Each of these...

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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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