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Comments on the 2023 Draft Merger Guidelines: A Labor Market Perspective

Berger, David; Hasenzagl, Thomas; Herkenhoff, Kyle; … - 2023

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 markets. The post-merger Herfindahl-Hirschman Index (HHI) that defines … benefit if the agencies lowered the HHI threshold further—to 1500 or 1000. (4) Worker welfare is central to the 2023 draft …

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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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Marshallian vs Jacobs Effects: Which One Is Stronger? Evidence for Russia Unemployment Dynamics

Demidova, Olga; Kolyagina, Alena; Pastore, Francesco - 2018

were empirically tested: 1) the dependence of the unemployment rate on the degree of concentration or diversification is … concentration or diversification on the level of unemployment depends on the time period. To test these hypotheses nonparametric …

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The Italian job: match rigging, career concerns and media concentration in Serie A

Boeri, Tito; Severgnini, Battista - 2008

significant winners-take-all effects, more competitive balance may increase corruption unless media concentration is also …

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The Italian Job: Match Rigging, Career Concerns and Media Concentration in Serie A

Boeri, Tito; Severgnini, Battista - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

significant "winners-take-all" effects, more competitive balance may increase corruption unless media concentration is also …

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Wage Mobility in Israel: The Effect of Sectoral Concentration

Cardoso, Ana Rute; Neuman, Shoshana; Ziderman, Adrian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

these sectors, a distinction is made between sub-sector groupings that exhibit a high level of concentration and those that … the extent of wage mobility in a given economic sector is negatively related to the degree of concentration in that sector. …

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Broadband Diffusion and Firm Performance in Rural Areas: Quasi-Experimental Evidence

Canzian, Giulia; Poy, Samuele; Schüller, Simone - 2015

This article analyzes the causal impact of advanced broadband accessibility on firm performance. We exploit a unique local policy intervention of a staged broadband infrastructure installation across rural municipalities in the Province of Trento (Italy), generating a source of exogenous...

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Determinants of Financial Rewards from Industry-University Collaboration in South Korea

Han, Junghee; Heshmati, Almas - 2013

The external circumstances for universities have been changing rapidly. In order to be competitive, survive, and flourish, universities have shown a growing enthusiasm to generate financial revenues externally. The literature refers to this phenomenon as academic capitalism, defined as the...

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Corruption, Networking and Foreign Ownership: Recent Evidence from CEE Countries

Pal, Sarmistha - 2013

The present paper argues that the effect of corruption on foreign ownership is not necessarily linear and depends on the level of host corruption. So long as the expected returns from foreign investments exceed its expected costs, higher host corruption will be associated with higher foreign...

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Outsourcing and technological change

Bartel, Ann; Lach, Saul; Sicherman, Nachum - 2009

We present a dynamic model where the probability of outsourcing production is increasing in the firm's expectation of technological change. As the pace of innovations in production technologies increases, the less time the firm has to amortize the sunk costs associated with purchasing and...

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