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Further Training and Affective Commitment
Grund, Christian; Titz, Krystina - 2018
We investigate the relation of further training and employees' affective commitment. In doing so, we distinguish … training is associated with the affective commitment of their employees and on the other hand how individual participation in … further training relates to affective commitment. Using the Linked Personnel Panel (LPP), which is a longitudinally linked …
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The economics of college sports: cartel behavior vs. amateurism
Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2006
This paper studies intercollegiate athletics in the context of the theory of cartels. Some point to explicit attempts by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) to restrict output and payments for factors of production as evidence of cartel behavior. Others argue that such limits...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268004
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Wages, Hires, and Labor Market Concentration
Marinescu, Ioana E.; 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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Competition and Innovation: The Breakup of IG Farben
Pöge, 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013426366
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The Economics of College Sports: Cartel Behavior vs. Amateurism
Kahn, Lawrence M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
This paper studies intercollegiate athletics in the context of the theory of cartels. Some point to explicit attempts by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) to restrict output and payments for factors of production as evidence of cartel behavior. Others argue that such limits...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566657
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Concentration in US Labor Markets: Evidence from Online Vacancy Data
Azar, José; Marinescu, Ioana E.; Steinbaum, Marshall; … - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011816651
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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...
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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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Comments on the 2023 Draft Merger Guidelines: A Labor Market Perspective
Berger, David; Hasenzagl, Thomas; Herkenhoff, Kyle; … - 2023
The DOJ and FTC clarify the role of labor market power ("monopsony") in the 2023 draft merger guidelines. The draft states in Guideline 11 that the structural presumption threshold applies to labor market concentration, while also suggesting that a stricter threshold may be warranted in labor...
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Product Market Regulation and Macroeconomic Performance: A Review of Cross Country Evidence
Schiantarelli, Fabio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
The main purpose of this paper is to provide a critical overview of the recent empirical contributions that use cross country data to study the effect of product market regulation and reform on a country’s macroeconomic performance. After a brief review of the theoretical literature and of...
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