This paper quantifies employer market power in US manufacturing and how it has changed over time. Using administrative data, we estimate plant-level markdowns—the ratio between …
D Card - American Economic Review, 2022 - aeaweb.org
I discuss the recent literature that has led to new interest in the idea of monopsonistic wage setting. Building on advances in search theory and in models of differentiated products …
We quantify the importance of imperfect competition in the US labor market by estimating the size of labor market rents earned by American firms and workers. We construct a matched …
Rising profitability and market valuations of US businesses, sluggish wage growth and a declining labor share of income, and reduced unemployment and inflation, have defined the …
The Economics of Health and Health Care is the market-leading health economics textbook, providing comprehensive coverage of all the key topics, and balancing economic theory …
Public employment programs may affect poverty both directly through the income they provide and indirectly through general equilibrium effects. We estimate both effects …
We estimate how exogenous worker exits affect firms' demand for incumbent workers and new hires. Drawing on administrative data from Germany, we analyze 34,000 unexpected …
L Mishel, J Bivens - Economic Policy Institute, 2021 - portside.org
Inequalities abound in the US economy, and a central driver in recent decades is the widening gap between the hourly compensation of a typical (median) worker and …
We estimate the impact of the firm component of hourly wage variation on separations from matched Oregon employer–employee data. We use both firm fixed effects estimated from a …