Data and Code for: Supply, Demand, Institutions, and Firms: A Theory of Labor Market Sorting and the Wage Distribution

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Daniel Haanwinckel, UCLA

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Project Citation: 

Haanwinckel, Daniel. Data and Code for: Supply, Demand, Institutions, and Firms: A Theory of Labor Market Sorting and the Wage Distribution. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2025. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2025-11-03. https://doi.org/10.3886/E221321V1

Project Description

Summary:  View help for Summary This paper examines how workforce composition, labor demand, and minimum wage jointly determine wages through their effects on worker-task assignments, firm wage premiums, and firm-worker sorting. Using an estimated model of monopsonistic local labor markets, it finds that minimum wage hikes and labor demand shocks drove the decline in Brazilian wage inequality from 1998 to 2012. While rising educational attainment compressed skill premiums within firms, it also reallocated skilled workers to high-wage firms, limiting that shock's effect on inequality. The analysis highlights interactions among exogenous factors, showing that concurrent supply and demand changes attenuated minimum wage impacts.

Scope of Project

Subject Terms:  View help for Subject Terms wages and salaries; minimum wage; schooling; labor demand; labor supply; sorting; firm effects; tasks; assignment
JEL Classification:  View help for JEL Classification
      E24 Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
      J24 Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
      J31 Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
      J38 Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs: Public Policy
Geographic Coverage:  View help for Geographic Coverage Brazil
Time Period(s):  View help for Time Period(s) 1997 – 2013


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