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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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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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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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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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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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Implicit Contracts, Incentive Compatibility, and Involuntary Unemployment: Thirty Years On

MacLeod, W. Bentley; Malcomson, James - 2023

"Implicit Contracts, incentive compatibility, and involuntary unemployment" (MacLeod and Malcomson, 1989) remains our most highly cited work. We briefly review the development of this paper and of our subsequent related work, and conclude with reflections on the future of relational contract...

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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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Winners and losers: fragmentation, trade and wages revisited

Geishecker, Ingo; Görg, Holger - 2004

Our paper investigates the link between outsourcing and wages utilising a large household panel and combining it with industry level information on industries? outsourcing activities from input-output tables. By doing so we can arguably overcome the potential endogeneity bias as well as other...

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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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