Table 4

Effect of Market Concentration on Real Wages: Panel Regressions

Dependent Variable: Log(Real Wage)
OLSIV
(1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7)(8)
Panel A: Market-Level Regressions
Log HHI (vacancies)-0.103***-0.0347***-0.0399***-0.0378***-0.0300***-0.141***-0.143***-0.127***
(0.00456)(0.00377)(0.00392)(0.00406)(0.00422)(0.0191)(0.0181)(0.0176)
Log tightness0.0113***0.0132***0.00686*0.0283***0.0305***
(0.00320)(0.00357)(0.00360)(0.00427)(0.00479)
year–quarter FE
Market (CZ × six-digit SOC) FE
year–quarter FE × CZ FE
Year–Quarter FE × six-digit SOC FE
Observations61,01759,48558,64256,67956,67759,48558,64256,679
R-squared0.0420.6740.6720.7150.738-0.018-0.015-0.012
Kleibergen–Paap F-stat854.31051996.7
Panel B: Vacancy-Level Regressions
Log HHI (vacancies)-0.0327***-0.0331***-0.0314***-0.0154***-0.200***-0.192***-0.188***-0.116***
(0.00453)(0.00476)(0.00500)(0.00377)(0.0398)(0.0361)(0.0370)(0.0184)
Log tightness0.0006650.004290.00818***0.0540***0.0737***0.0315***
(0.00342)(0.00462)(0.00297)(0.0133)(0.0180)(0.00601)
CZ × six-digit SOC FE
year–quarter FE
year–quarter FE × CZ FE
CZ × job-title FE
Observations1,023,2951,021,1851,020,510955,6411,023,2951,021,1851,020,510955,641
R-squared0.5330.5330.5410.8490.5220.5240.5340.847
Kleibergen–Paap F-stat45.6256.1858.72150.1
  • Notes: Data are for the period 2010Q1–2013Q4. We cluster standard errors at the market level.

  • * p < 0.1,

  • ** p < 0.05,

  • *** p < 0.01.