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 … a highly concentrated market is 1800, which is lower, and so stricter, than the 2010 guidelines. We provide five …

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 equivalent of 2.5 recruiting employers. 54% of labor markets are … employment. All plausible alternative market definitions show that more than 33% of markets are highly concentrated, suggesting …

the market. A probit model was applied for repeated-cross-sections on ?specific? local areas in order to control for … possible autocorrelation and endogeneity. The results show that in the northern part of Italy, where most immigrants are … effect prevails, while there is a negative effect only in the manufacturing sector in Northern Italy for 1996. This effect …

as competition intensifies between workers, the incentive for workers to cooperate with each other diminishes. We report … different amounts of competition on-the-job and that these differences explain differences in cooperation in our experiment … staff who face little competition on the job. Further, after accounting for the possibility of personality-based selection …

Choice and competition in education have found growing support from both policy makers and academics in the recent past …. Yet, evidence on the actual benefits of market-oriented reforms is at best mixed. Moreover, while the economic rationale … for choice and competition is clear, in existing work there is rarely an attempt to distinguish between the two concepts …

This paper evaluates general achievement effects of choice and competition between private and public schools at the …

academia have been partially explained by competitive pressures, which suggests a link between competition and cheating. In our … sex difference in cheating. However, the effect of competition on women's cheating behavior is entirely due to the fact … individual to conduct a particular task and not sex that crucially affects the reaction to competition. Poor performers …