Data and Code for: Employer Concentration and Wages for Specialized Workers

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Anna Thoresson, IFAU

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Name File Type Size Last Modified
1. Clean wages.do text/plain 3.9 KB 08/31/2022 10:31:AM
10. Regressions - predicting privatization.do text/plain 2.7 KB 08/31/2022 10:31:AM
11. Regressions - small, medium, large.do text/plain 9.4 KB 02/17/2023 02:02:AM
12. Regressions - ols, rf and iv.do text/plain 8.6 KB 08/31/2022 10:31:AM
13. Regressions - robustness.do text/plain 22.4 KB 08/31/2022 10:31:AM
14. Regressions - pharmacists.do text/plain 5.2 KB 08/31/2022 10:31:AM
15. Regressions - randomization inference.do text/plain 4.8 KB 08/31/2022 10:31:AM
16. Regressions - heterogeneity - mobility.do text/plain 7 KB 08/31/2022 10:31:AM
17. Regressions - heterogeneity - 2008 sample.do text/plain 3.1 KB 08/31/2022 10:31:AM
18. Regressions - composition.do text/plain 5.2 KB 08/31/2022 10:31:AM

Project Citation: 

Thoresson, Anna. Data and Code for: Employer Concentration and Wages for Specialized Workers. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2023. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2023-12-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/E178981V1

Project Description

Summary:  View help for Summary This paper studies how wages respond to a sudden change in employer concentration by using the deregulation of the Swedish pharmacy industry. The reform involved a substantial and policy driven increase in the number of employers that varied by local labor market. Exploiting this variation, elasticities of wages with respect to labor market concentration are estimated to be between -0.025 and -0.061. The positive wage effects from reduced employer concentration are most prevalent for more mobile workers, as well as younger and foreign born workers. Overall, the paper finds that employer concentration matters for wages in a context where skills are industry-specific.


Funding Sources:  View help for Funding Sources Jan Wallander and Tom Hedelius foundation (H17-0025)

Scope of Project

Subject Terms:  View help for Subject Terms Wages; Competition; Labor market concentration; Pharmacy
JEL Classification:  View help for JEL Classification
      J31 Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
      J42 Monopsony; Segmented Labor Markets
      J45 Public Sector Labor Markets
Geographic Coverage:  View help for Geographic Coverage Sweden
Data Type(s):  View help for Data Type(s) aggregate data; geographic information system (GIS) data; program source code


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