In new analysis, Sabien Dobbelaere, Grace McCormack, Daniel Prinz, and Sándor Sóvágó discover that mergers negatively impression labor market outcomes. Mergers end in job losses, and the earnings of employees who lose their jobs don’t get better for a number of years on common. The authors discover these unfavorable penalties are extra doubtless attributable to … [Read more…]
In two current papers, Matthew E. Kahn and Joseph Tracy study the outcomes of native labor markets affected by monopsony energy. They discover that in areas with a excessive diploma of monopsony energy, employees earn decrease wages however are compensated with decrease home costs, on the expense of house owners. Monopsony markets additionally expertise a … [Read more…]
A brand new empirical research examines whether or not developments in automation and robotics have affected intergenerational revenue mobility. The authors discover that folks’ publicity to new applied sciences is related to decrease revenue mobility. The diploma to which kids are affected by mother and father’ labor market outcomes influences how kids can form their … [Read more…]
Stricter merger coverage tips will enhance competitors, resulting in increased wages and welfare for staff, writes Kyle Herkenhoff and Simon Mongey. The authors use financial modeling to indicate that the stricter 2023 Pointers will enhance employee welfare, and that even tighter thresholds may be utilized to labor markets to amplify employee welfare good points from … [Read more…]