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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 structure is rare. The 1952 breakup of Germany's leading chemical company, IG Farben, represents such a disruption. After the Second World War, the Allies occupying Germany imposed...
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The economics of college sports : cartel behavior vs. amateurism
Kahn, Lawrence M. (contributor) - 2006
This paper studies intercollegiate athletics in the context of the theory of cartels. Some point to explicit attempts … 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 …
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Wages, hires, and labor market concentration
Marinescu, Ioana; Ouss, Ivan; Pape, Louis-Daniel - 2020
.9%, as hypothesized by monopsony theory. Based on a simple merger simulation, we find that a merger between the top two …
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A theory of immigration amnesties
Epstein, Gil S.; Weiss, Avi - 2001
This paper presents a first attempt at understanding some of the many issues involved in the granting of an amnesty to illegal immigrants. We consider government behavior with respect to allocations on limiting infiltration (border control) and apprehending infiltrators (internal control) and...
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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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The distribution of earnings under monopsonistic/polistic competition
Thisse, Jacques-François; Toulemonde, Eric - 2010
Recent empirical contributions in labor economics suggest that individual firms face upward sloping labor supplies. We rationalize this by assuming that diosyncratic non-pecuniary conditions interact with money wages in workers' decisions to work for specific firms. Likewise, firms supply...
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The impact of product market competition on employment and wages
Amable, Bruno; Gatti, Donatella - 2001
Standard economic wisdom generally stresses the benefits of increased competition on the product market. This paper proposes a model of monopolistic competition with an endogenous determination of workers flows in and out of unemployment, where wages are determined according to an efficiency...
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Bonus culture : competitive pay, screening, and multitasking
Bénabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - 2013
This paper analyzes the impact of labor market competition and skill-biased technical change on the structure of compensation. The model combines multitasking and screening, embedded into a Hotelling-like framework. Competition for the most talented workers leads to an escalating reliance on...
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How does imperfect competition in the labor market affect unemployment policies?
Wauthy, Xavier Yves; Zenou, Yves - 2001
We consider a continuum of workers ranked according to their abilities to acquire education and two firms with different technologies that imperfectly compete in wages to attract these workers. Once employed, each worker bears an education cost proportional to his/her initial ability, this cost...
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Uneven technical progress and unemployment
Gersbach, Hans; Schniewind, Achim - 2002
In a two-sector-economy with real wage rigidity, we examine how technical progress in one sector affects aggregate unemployment. We show that aggregate unemployment decreases for uneven technical change in the case of Cobb-Douglas production functions. For every type of technical progress there...
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