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Wages, Hires, and Labor Market Concentration

Marinescu, Ioana Elena - 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. - 2021

evidence of cartel behavior. Others argue that such limits enhance product quality by preserving amateurism. I find that the …

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Cross-Border Mergers and National Champions in an Integrating Economy

Suedekum, Jens - 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 quot;synergyquot; effects of …

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Employer Market Power in Silicon Valley

Gibson, Matthew - 2022

Adam Smith alleged that employers sometimes secretly collude to reduce labor earnings. This paper examines an important case of such behavior: illegal no-poaching agreements through which information-technology companies agreed not to compete for each other's workers. Exploiting the plausibly...

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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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Unemployment Benefits and Immigration : Evidence from the EU

Giulietti, Corrado - 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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Comparing Inequality Aversion Across Countries When Labor Supply Responses Differ

Bargain, Olivier - 2013

We analyze to which extent social inequality aversion differs across nations when controlling for actual country differences in labor supply responses. Towards this aim, we estimate labor supply elasticities at both extensive and intensive margins for 17 EU countries and the US. Using the same...

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Trends in Commuting Time of European Workers : A Cross-Country Analysis

Giménez, José Ignacio - 2020

This paper examines the time spent commuting to/from work by workers in fifteen European countries, during the last three decades, with the aim of analyzing recent trends in commuting and the factors affecting commuting behavior in those countries. Using data from several waves of the European...

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Financial Crises and Liberalization : Progress or Reversals?

Saka, Orkun - 2019

Financial crisis can trigger policy reversals, i.e. they can lead to a process of re- regulation of financial markets. Using a recent comprehensive dataset on financial liberalization across 94 countries for the period between 1973 and 2015, we formally test the validity of this prediction for...

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Fiscal Sustainability and Demographic Change : A Micro Approach for 27 EU Countries

Dolls, Mathias - 2016

The effect of demographic change on the labor force and on fiscal revenues is topical in light of potential pension shortfalls. This paper evaluates the effect of demographic changes between 2010 and 2030 on labor force participation and government budgets in the EU-27. Our analysis involves the...

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