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Wages, hires, and labor market concentration

Marinescu, Ioana; Ouss, Ivan; Pape, Louis-Daniel - 2020

How does employer market power affect workers? We compute the concentration of new hires by occupation and commuting zone in France using linked employer-employee data. Using instrumental variables with worker and firm fixed effects, we find that a 10% increase in labor market concentration...

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Theory and evidence on employer collusion in the franchise sector

Krueger, Alan B.; Ashenfelter, Orley - 2018

In this paper we study the role of covenants in franchise contracts that restrict the recruitment and hiring of employees from other units within the same franchise chain in suppressing competition for workers. Based on an analysis of 2016 Franchise Disclosure Documents, we find that...

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How should we think about employers' associations?

Bryson, Alex; Willman, Paul - 2022

We maintain that employer associations are a specific form of employer collusion that is overt, formal and labour … this form of collusion might emerge, and how it might develop. Since the context is the decline of employers' associations … growth or decline of other forms of collusion in areas such as product and financial markets, and political influence. Our …

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Tournaments and multiple productive inputs : the case of performance enhancing drugs

Konrad, Kai A. (contributor) - 2005

In this paper I consider the desirability of drugs that enhance cognitive abilities in the context of tournaments that are used as optimal labor contracts as in Lazear and Rosen (1981). Such drugs reduce the number of voluntary participants in a tournament, but increase individual and total...

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Sabotage in tournaments : evidence from a laboratory experiment

Harbring, Christine; Irlenbusch, Bernd - 2009

Although relative performance schemes are pervasive in organizations reliable empirical data on induced sabotage behavior is almost non-existent. We study sabotage in tournaments in a controlled laboratory experiment and are able to confirm one of the key insights from theory: effort and...

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Foreign acquisition, plant survival, and employment growth

Bandick, Roger; Görg, Holger - 2009

This paper analyses the effect of foreign acquisition on survival probability and employment growth of target plant using data on Swedish manufacturing plants during the period 1993-2002. An improvement over previous studies is that we take into account firm level heterogeneity by separating the...

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Outsourcing and technological change

Bartel, Ann; Lach, Saul; Sicherman, Nachum - 2009

We present a dynamic model where the probability of outsourcing production is increasing in the firm’s expectation of technological change. As the pace of innovations in production technologies increases, the less time the firm has to amortize the sunk costs associated with purchasing and...

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Greasing the wheels of international commerce : how services facilitate firms’ international sourcing

Debaere, Peter; Görg, Holger; Raff, Horst - 2010

We use unique plant-level data to study the link between the local availability of services and the decision of manufacturing firms to source materials from abroad. To guide our empirical analysis we develop a monopolistic-competition model of the materials sourcing decisions of heterogeneous...

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Multinational companies, backward linkages and labour demand elasticities

Görg, Holger; Henry, Michael; Strobl, Eric; Walsh, Frank A. - 2006

This paper investigates the link between nationality of ownership and wage elasticities of labour demand at the level of the plant. In particular, we examine whether labour demand in multinationals becomes less elastic with respect to the wage if the plant has backward linkages with the local...

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Workforce reorganization and the worker

Kriechel, Ben; Pfann, Gerard A. - 2011

In this paper we study the joint decision process of changing the structure of jobs and laying off individual workers in a firm that downsizes its workforce. A hierarchical decision model is proposed and estimated using personnel data from a firm in demise comparing the characteristics of the...

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