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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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The economics of college sports : cartel behavior vs. amateurism
Kahn, Lawrence M. (contributor) - 2006
evidence of cartel behavior. Others argue that such limits enhance product quality by preserving amateurism. I find that the … contributions, state appropriations, and additional student applications. -- cartel ; monopsony ; college athletics …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003339779
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Cross-border mergers and national champions in an integrating economy
Südekum, Jens (contributor) - 2006
We introduce a simple oligopolistic trade model with international transportation costs, and analyze the profitability … and the social desirability of national vs. international mergers in relation to three different issues, (i) the level of … trade freeness, (ii) the possibility of rent appropriation on world markets, and (iii) direct "synergy" effects of mergers …
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Employer market power in Silicon Valley
Gibson, Matthew - 2021
Adam Smith alleged that secret employer collusion to reduce labor earnings is common. This paper examines an important case of such behavior: no-poach agreements through which technology companies agreed not to compete for each other’s workers. Exploiting the plausibly exogenous timing of a US...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012698177
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Labour market concentration, wages and job security in Europe
Bassanini, Andrea; Bovini, Giulia; Caroli, Eve; … - 2022
We investigate the impact of labour market concentration on two dimensions of job quality, namely wages and job security. We leverage rich administrative linked employer-employee data from Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal and Spain in the 2010s to provide the first comparable...
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Productivity and size of the export market : evidence for West and East German plants, 2004
Wagner, Joachim (contributor) - 2007
actor on the world market for manufactured goods. It documents that firms that export to countries inside the euro-zone are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003539184
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The free movement of workers in an enlarged European Union : institutional underpinnings of economic adjustment
Kahanec, Martin; Pytlikova, Mariola; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2014
The eastern enlargements of the European Union (EU) and the extension of the free movement of workers to the new member states' citizens unleashed significant east-west migration flows in a labor market with more than half a billion people. Although many old member states applied transitional...
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The role of constitutions on poverty : a cross-national investigation
Minkler, Lanse; Prakash, Nishith - 2015
In this paper we use novel historical data on economics and social rights from the constitutions of 201 countries and an instrument variable strategy to answer two important questions. First, do economic and social rights provisions in constitutions reduce poverty? Second, does the strength of...
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Unemployment benefits and immigration : evidence from the EU
Giulietti, Corrado; Guzi, Martin; Kahanec, Martin; … - 2011
The paper studies the impact of unemployment benefits on immigration. A sample of 19 European countries observed over the period 1993-2008 is used to test the hypothesis that unemployment benefit spending (UBS) is correlated with immigration flows from EU and non-EU origins. While OLS estimates...
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Trade and inequality in Europe and the US
Dorn, David; Levell, Peter - 2021
The share of low-income countries in global exports nearly tripled between 1990 and 2015, driven largely by the rapid emergence of China as an exporting powerhouse. While research in economics had long acknowledged that trade with lower-income countries could raise income inequality in Europe...
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