“Strong Employers and Weak Employees: How Does Employer Concentration Affect Wages?”
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The LBD used by Rinz (2018) and Benmelech, Bergman, and Kim (2018) contains employment but not sales data.
“The LBD used by Rinz (2018) and Benmelech, Bergman, and Kim (2018) contains employment but not sales data.”
From The Fall of the Labor Share and the Rise of Superstar Firms* (2020) · cites this paper as Benmelech, Bergman, and Kim (2018)
Section II.A (page unavailable) says Benmelech, Bergman, and Kim use the LBD to measure employment concentration and lists the number of employees among its variables. It identifies the separate CMF and ASM databases as providing shipment values, but does not explicitly say the LBD lacks sales data. This paper also does not establish what data Rinz (2018) used. (LLM, conf=0.84)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredBenmelech, Bergman, and Kim (2018) find increases in local concentration whereas Rinz (2018) and Rossi-Hansberg, Sarte, and Trachter (2018) find a decrease.
“For example, Benmelech , Bergman, and Kim (2018) find increases in local concentration whereas Rinz (2018) and Rossi-Hansberg, Sarte, and Trachter (2018) find a decrease.”
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Several papers have found a negative link between local labor market concentration and local wages.
“Several papers have found a negative link between local labor market concentration and local wages (e.g.Azar et al, 2018; Benmelech, Bergman and Kim, 2018; and Rinz, 2018).”
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- Authors
- Benmelech, E., Bergman, N., & Kim, H.
- Affiliations
- Northwestern University (US)
- National Bureau of Economic Research (US)
- Corresponding author
- Benmelech, Efraim
- ORCID
- Kim, Hyunseob
- Venue
- SSRN Electronic Journal
- Publisher
- National Bureau of Economic Research
- Published
- 2018-02
- ISSN
- 1556-5068 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W3124738573
- Cited by
- 240
- References
- 51
- Citations by year
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- Type
- posted content
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- doi.org
- Locations
- SSRN Electronic Journal (publishedVersion)
- National Bureau of Economic Research (publishedVersion)
- Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Labor market dynamics and wage inequality
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Merger and Competition Analysis
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Names, Identity, and Discrimination Research
- Keywords
- wages, labor market power, employer bargaining power, wage determination, market concentration
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