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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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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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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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Labor Market Concentration

Azar, José; Marinescu, Ioana E.; Steinbaum, Marshall - 2017

A product market is concentrated when a few firms dominate the market. Similarly, a labor market is concentrated when a few firms dominate hiring in the market. Using data from the leading employment website CareerBuilder.com, we calculate labor market concentration for over 8,000...

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Economic Integration and State Capacity: Evidence from the Eastern Enlargement of the European Union

Bruszt, Laszlo; Campos, Nauro F - 2018

: judiciary, bureaucracy, and competition policy. To test our framework, we introduce a new panel of institutional reform measures …

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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...

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Employment protection reform in search economies

L'Haridon, Olivier; Malherbet, Franck - 2006

contours of the EPL reform. In this article we used an equilibrium unemployment model to investigate the virtue of an EPL … reform whose modality is a lessening in the red tape and legal costs associated with layoffs and the introduction of an U ….S. like experience rating system modelled as a combination of a layoff tax and a payroll subsidy. The reform considered shows …

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Employment protection reforms, employment and the incidence of temporary jobs in Europe: 1995 - 2001

Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2007

Using European Community Household Panel data for nine countries for 1996-2001, I investigate the impact of reforms of employment protection systems on employment and on temporary jobs for wage and salary workers. Individual fixed effects models are estimated, with the inclusion of...

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Education, Market Rigidities and Growth

Aghion, Philippe; Askenazy, Philippe; Bourlès, Renaud; … - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This note investigates the effects of the education level, product market rigidities andemployment protection legislation on growth. It exploits macro-panel data for OECDcountries...

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Training, Worker Mobility, and Employer Coordination

Martins, Pedro S.; Thomas, Jonathan P. - 2022

This paper presents a new model of firms' decisions on training in a context of potential worker mobility. Such worker mobility can be influenced by employers coordination, namely through the operation of no-poach agreements and employers' associations (EAs). We then present supporting evidence...

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