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The fall of the labor share and the rise of superstar firms

Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Katz, Lawrence F.; … - 2017

firms in each industry, product market concentration will rise as industries become increasingly dominated by superstar … increasingly concentrate in a small number of firms; industries where concentration rises most will have the largest declines in … share will be greatest in the sectors with the largest increases in market concentration; and finally, such patterns will be …

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Concentrating on the fall of the labor share

Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Katz, Lawrence F.; … - 2017

al. (2017), we evaluate and confirm two core claims of the superstar firm hypothesis: the concentration of sales among … firms within industries has risen across much of the private sector; and industries with larger increases in concentration …

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Energy prices, pass-through, and incidence in U.S. manufacturing

Ganapati, Sharat; Shapiro, Joseph S.; Walker, Reed - 2016

This paper studies how increases in energy input costs for production are split between consumers and producers via changes in product prices (i.e., pass-through). We show that in markets characterized by imperfect competition, marginal cost pass-through, a demand elasticity, and a price-cost...

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Concentration in US labor markets : evidence from online vacancy data

Azar, José; Marinescu, Ioana; Steinbaum, Marshall; … - 2018

calculate labor market concentration using the Herfindahl-Hirschman index (HHI) for each commuting zone by 6-digit SOC …

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Firm dynamics with frictional product and labor markets

Kaas, Leo; Kimasa, Bihemo - 2018

This paper analyzes the joint dynamics of prices, output and employment across firms. We develop a dynamic equilibrium model of heterogeneous firms who compete for workers and customers in frictional labor and product markets. Idiosyncratic productivity and demand shocks have distinct...

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Skill-biased change in entrepreneurial technology

Poschke, Markus - 2010

In contrast to the very large literature on skill-biased technical change among workers, there is hardly any work on the importance of skills for the entrepreneurs who employ those workers, and in particular on their evolution over time. This paper proposes a simple theory of skill-biased change...

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The firm size distribution across countries and skill-biased change in entrepreneurial technology

Poschke, Markus - 2014

How and why does the firm size distribution differ across countries? Using two datasets covering more than 30 countries, this paper documents that several features of the firm size distribution are strongly associated with income per capita: the entrepreneurship rate and the fraction of small...

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Who do unions target? : unionization over the life-cycle of US businesses

Dinlersoz, Emin Murat; Greenwood, Jeremy; Hyatt, Henry R. - 2014

What type of businesses do unions target for organizing? A dynamic model of the union organizing process is constructed to answer this question. A union monitors establishments in an industry to learn about their productivity and decides which ones to organize and when. An establishment becomes...

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Product markets and paychecks : deregulation's effect on the compensation structure in banking

Wozniak, Abigail K. (contributor) - 2006

This paper asks how deregulation intended to promote competition in the commercial banking industry affected the compensation structure for banking employees. Using establishment-based data from the Employment Cost Index Survey of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, I obtain measures of the...

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Creative disruption : technology innovation, labour demand and the pandemic

Barth, Erling; Bryson, Alex; Dale-Olsen, Harald - 2022

We utilize a new survey on Norwegian firms' digitalization and technology investments, linked to population-wide register data, to show that the pandemic massively disrupted the technology investment plans of firms, not only postponing investments, but also introducing new technologies. More...

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