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Concentration in US Labor Markets : Evidence from Online Vacancy Data
Azar, José - 2018
Using data on the near-universe of online US job vacancies collected by Burning Glass Technologies in 2016, we calculate labor market concentration using the Herfindahl-Hirschman index (HHI) for each commuting zone by 6-digit SOC occupation. The average market has an HHI of 3,953, or the...
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The Effect of Franchise No-Poaching Restrictions on Worker Earnings
Callaci, Brian; Gibson, Matthew; Pinto, Sergio; … - 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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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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Investor Protection and the Value of Shares : Evidence from Statutory Rules Governing Variations of Shareholders' Class Rights in Russia
Muravyev, Alexander - 2010
This paper uses a quasi-experimental framework provided by recent changes in Russian corporate law to study the effect of investor protection on the value of shares. The legal change analyzed involves the empowerment of preferred (non-voting) shareholders to veto unfavorable changes in their...
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Rational Inattention and Employer Learning
Habermalz, Steffen - 2010
Research on employer learning has provided important insights into the dynamic process that determines individual wages, especially during the early part of a worker's career. However, the recent evidence on the absence of employer learning for college graduates by Arcidiacono et al. (2008) and...
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Skill-Biased Change in Entrepreneurial Technology
Poschke, Markus - 2010
a positive relationship between an individual's potential payoffs in working and in entrepreneurship. If some firms … consequence, the entrepreneurship rate falls with income per capita, average firm size and firm size dispersion increase with … income per capita, and "entrepreneurship out of necessity" falls with income per capita. The paper also documents, for two of …
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Risk, Balanced Skills and Entrepreneurship
Hsieh, Chihmao - 2011
the impacts both of risk aversion and balanced skills on the likelihood individuals choose entrepreneurship. Data on Dutch …-averse people might be suited to entrepreneurship; and it may also help explain why prior research has generated mixed evidence … about the effects of risk aversion on selection into entrepreneurship …
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Are the Self-Employed Really Jacks-of-All-Trades? Testing the Assumptions and Implications of Lazear's Theory of Entrepreneurship with German Data
Lechmann, Daniel S. J. - 2011
-of-all-trades" view of entrepreneurship by Lazear (AER 2004). Consistent with its theoretical assumptions we find that self …
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The Implications of Cultural Background on Labour Market Choices : The Case of Religion and Entrepreneurship
Nunziata, L. - 2011
We suggest a methodology for identifying the implications of alternative cultural and social norms embodied by religious denomination on labour market outcomes, by estimating the differential impact of Protestantism versus Catholicism on the propensity to be an entrepreneur, on the basis of the...
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Transitions to Entrepreneurship and Industry-Specific Barriers
Lofstrom, Magnus - 2011
enter entrepreneurship, we find that the conventional practice of conflating different industry types in empirical analyses … of transitions to entrepreneurship generates misleading findings about the determinants of entrepreneurship …
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