Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/71733 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 7342
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Using linked employer-employee data, I compute firm-level measures of the labor supply elasticity facing each private non-farm firm in the US. I provide the first direct evidence of the positive relationship between a firm's labor supply elasticity and the earnings of its workers. I also contrast the dynamic model method employed by this paper with the more traditional use of concentration ratios to measure a firm's labor market power. Finally, I construct a counterfactual earnings distribution which allows the effects of firm market power to vary across the earnings distribution.
Subjects: 
monopsony
JEL: 
J42
J21
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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