Using data on the near-universe of US online job vacancies collected by Burning Glass
Technologies in 2016, we calculate labor market concentration using the Herfindahl …

Labor markets are not perfectly competitive: Monopsony power enables employers to pay
workers less than the marginal revenue product of labor. We review three theoretical …

I estimate the effect of trade on local labor market concentration and the consequences
thereof to wages using a sufficient statistics approach, employer-employee linked data, and …

We leverage administrative linked employer-employee data from six European countries to
provide the first comparable cross-country evidence on the impact of labor market …

This paper extends the monopsony literature by taking a task-based approach and
estimating the causal effect of concentration on labour market outcomes. Using detailed …

Noncompete agreements limiting the mobility of workers have been found to be widespread
in the United States, a flexible and lightly regulated labor market. We explore the use of …

This paper brings together the modern research on employer power and employee power
by empirically examining the effects of unionization on worker earnings, employment, and …

We investigate the impact of labor market concentration on average wages and decompose
it into its effects on new hires and incumbents, where incumbents are defined as individuals …

Worker mobility and wages have declined in the United States amid rising employer market
power. I propose a theory of the labor market in which a decrease in employer competition …

We use original data from a questionnaire survey of 9062 individuals enrolled in PhD
programmes in Italy between 2008 and 2014 to conduct an empirical investigation of gender …