Table 7

Effect of Market Concentration on Real Wages: Robustness Checks 2 (Panel IV)

Dependent Variable: Log(Real Wage)
1/N
(1)
HHI (EOI)
(2)
County
(3)
Cross-Section
(4)
Cross-Section (BLS Wages)
(5)
Fraction Posting Wage
(6)
Search Tightness
(7)
Log (1/N)-0.0882***
(0.0123)
Log HHI (EOI)-0.102***
(0.0142)
Log HHI (vacancies)-0.142***-0.0927***-0.0352***-0.157***-0.125***
(0.0153)(0.0156)(0.00555)(0.0231)(0.0185)
Log tightness0.00898***0.003010.0248***0.0300***0.003080.0325***
(0.00345)(0.00350)(0.00337)(0.00997)(0.00349)(0.00510)
Fraction posting wage0.147***
(0.0305)
Log (vacancies/searches)0.0252***
(0.0447)
CZ FE × six-digit SOC FE
year–quarter FE × CZ FE
County FE × six-digit SOC FE
year–quarter FE × county FE
CZ FE
Six-digit SOC FE
Observations56,67956,67994,7148,8956,22856,67957,383
R-squared0.7140.7110.7220.6060.9370.7090.712
Kleibergen–Paap F-stat  2008  1973  1473  1546  1494  643  800.8
  • Notes: Data are for the period 2010Q1–2013Q4. We cluster standard errors at the market level. In all cases, we report results from a panel IV specification using the average of log(l/2V) for the same six-digit SOC occupation in other commuting zones.

  • * p < 0.1,

  • ** p < 0.05,

  • *** p < 0.01.