We analyze the effect of local-level labor market concentration on wages. Using plant-level
US Census data during 1978–2016, we find that:(i) local-level employer concentration …

Thousands of establishments employing millions of workers change ownership each year,
sometimes leading to large changes in local labor market concentration that potentially …

How does employer market power affect workers? We compute the concentration of new
hires by occupation and commuting zone in France using linked employer-employee data …

I study the effect of labor market imperfections on the labor share in a tractable model that
emphasizes the interaction between productivity dispersion and firm competition for workers …

I document trends in local industrial concentration from 1976 through 2015 and estimate
effects of concentration on earnings outcomes. Local concentration generally declined over …

This paper characterizes the cross-sectional and time-series properties of concentration in
employment, job creation, and vacancy flows across US local labor markets. We proceed in …

A product market is concentrated when a few firms dominate the market. Similarly, a labor
market is concentrated when a few firms dominate hiring in the market. Using data from the …

We develop, estimate, and test a tractable general equilibrium model of oligopsony with
differentiated jobs and concentrated labor markets. We estimate key model parameters by …

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 …

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 …