Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/250573 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 14912
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We investigate the impact of labor market concentration on stayers' wages, where stayers are defined as individuals who were already employed in the same firm the year before. Using administrative data for France, we show that the elasticity of stayers' wages to labor market concentration ranges between -0.0185 and -0.0230, depending on the instrument we use, and controlling for labor productivity and local product market concentration. This represents between about two thirds and three fourth of the elasticity we estimate for new hires. Given the strong wage rigidities characterizing the French labor market, this estimate can be considered a lower bound of the effect of labor market concentration on stayers' wages in an international perspective.
Subjects: 
labor market concentration
monopsony
wages
stayers
JEL: 
J31
J42
L41
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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