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Firm-level monopsony and the gender pay gap
Webber, Douglas A. - 2013
women but not men. -- monopsony ; discrimination …
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The effect of the 2016 United States presidential election on employment discrimination
Gorzig, Marina Mileo; Rho, Deborah - 2020
We examine whether employment discrimination increased after the 2016 presidential election in the United States. We … difference between white and Somali American applicants increased by 8 percentage points. The increased discrimination … 2018 to test for seasonality in discrimination; there was no substantial increase in discrimination after the 2017 election. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012306403
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Imperfect competition, compensating differentials and rent sharing in the U.S. labor market
Lamadon, Thibaut; Mogstad, Magne; Setzler, Bradley - 2019
The primary goal of our paper is to quantify the importance of imperfect competition in the U.S. labor market by estimating the size of rents earned by American firms and workers from ongoing employment relationships. To this end, we construct a matched employeremployee panel data set by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012105121
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Elasticity of supply to the firm and the business cycle
Depew, Briggs; Sorensen, Todd - 2011
A body of recent empirical work has found strong evidence that the labor elasticity of supply to the firm is finite, implying that firms may have wage setting power. However, these studies capture only snapshots of the parameter. We study this parameter over a period that provides substantial...
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Elasticity of supply to the firm and the business cycle
Depew, Briggs; Sorensen, Todd - 2011
explanation of the pro-cyclicality of wages. -- monopsony ; labor market frictions ; business cycles …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009379603
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Do frictions matter in the labor market? : accessions, separations and minimum wage effects
Dube, Arindrajit; Lester, T. William; Reich, Michael - 2011
imply that frictions help explain minimum wage effects. -- minimum wage ; labor market flows ; monopsony ; Bayesian …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009310198
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Firm market power and the earnings distribution
Webber, Douglas A. - 2013
distribution which allows the effects of firm market power to vary across the earnings distribution. -- monopsony …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009730795
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Monopsony in the U.S. labor market
Yeh, Chen; Macaluso, Claudia; Hershbein, Brad - 2022
This paper quantifies the extent to which the U.S. manufacturing labor market is characterized by employer market power and how such market power has changed over time. We find that the vast majority of U.S. manufacturing plants operate in a monopsonistic environment and, at least since the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013162115
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Concentration in US labor markets : evidence from online vacancy data
Azar, José; Marinescu, Ioana; 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/10011810153
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Theory and evidence on employer collusion in the franchise sector
Krueger, Alan B.; Ashenfelter, Orley - 2018
In this paper we study the role of covenants in franchise contracts that restrict the recruitment and hiring of employees from other units within the same franchise chain in suppressing competition for workers. Based on an analysis of 2016 Franchise Disclosure Documents, we find that...
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