Data and Code for: Labor Market Power and Development
Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Tristany Armangué-Jubert, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona; Nezih Guner, CEMFI; Alessandro Ruggieri, CUNEF
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Project Citation:
Armangué-Jubert, Tristany, Guner, Nezih , and Ruggieri, Alessandro. Data and Code for: Labor Market Power and Development. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2025. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2025-05-09. https://doi.org/10.3886/E202183V1
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Summary:
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Imperfect competition in labor markets can lead to efficiency losses and lower aggregate output. This paper examines how variations in labor market competitiveness may account for differences in GDP per capita among countries. By structurally estimating an oligopsony model with free entry across different development stages, we find that labor market power increases with GDP per capita. Wage mark-downs vary from 54% in low-income countries to around 24% in the richest ones. If labor markets in poorer countries were as competitive as in more developed ones, their output per capita could rise by up to 44%.
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JEL Classification:
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E24 Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
J42 Monopsony; Segmented Labor Markets
L13 Oligopoly and Other Imperfect Markets
O11 Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
E24 Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
J42 Monopsony; Segmented Labor Markets
L13 Oligopoly and Other Imperfect Markets
O11 Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
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