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Labor market concentration and competition policy across the Atlantic
Araki, Satoshi; Bassanini, Andrea; Green, Andrew S.; … - 2022
of enforcement activity by European competition authorities in labor markets relative to the US. While enforcement action … competition enforcement in labor markets. The article identifies sectors and practices that may be scrutinized with priority by … European competition authorities and proposes a mix of enforcement, merger control and well-targeted policy and regulatory …
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Competition and innovation : the breakup of IG Farben
Poege, Felix - 2022
The relationship between competition and innovation is difficult to disentangle, as exogenous variation in market …-induced innovation increase by the IG Farben successors, which then spilled over to the wider chemical industry. …
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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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Common ownership of competing firms: evidence from Australia
Leigh, Andrew; Triggs, Adam - 2021
limitations of the available data, and the potential implications of common ownership for competition in Australia. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012513226
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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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Inequality and market concentration : new evidence from Australia
Hotchin, Lachlan; Leigh, Andrew - 2024
Are excessively concentrated markets inequitable as well as inefficient? We explore this issue by analyzing the degree of market concentration in the industries where Australia's wealthiest made their fortunes. Compared with the economy at large, we find that top wealth holders have tended to...
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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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Minimum wages as a barrier to entry : evidence from Germany
Bachmann, Ronald; Bauer, Thomas K.; Kroeger, Hanna - 2012
threat of low-wage competition from Central and Eastern European Countries is relatively high. In addition, firms paying … is high. -- minimum wage ; product market competition ; service sector …
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Immigrant entrepreneurs and innovation in the U.S. high-tech sector
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Kim, Mee Jung; Lee, … - 2019
We estimate differences in innovation behavior between foreign versus U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries … characteristics and innovation activities. We find uniformly higher rates of innovation in immigrant-owned firms for 15 of 16 … different innovation measures; the only exception is for copyright/trademark. The immigrant advantage holds for older firms as …
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Skills, scope, and success : an empirical look at the start-up process in creative industries in Germany
Kohn, Karsten; Wewel, Solvejg A. - 2018
Creative industries comprise enterprises focusing on the creation, production, and distribution of creative or cultural goods and services. Following an explorative empirical approach, we analyze start-ups in creative industries regarding three issues along the startup process: (1) personal...
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