Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/305457 
Year of Publication: 
2024
Series/Report no.: 
Upjohn Institute Working Paper No. 24-405
Publisher: 
W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, Kalamazoo, MI
Abstract: 
We evaluate the nationwide impact of the Washington State attorney general's 2018-2020 enforcement campaign against no-poach clauses in franchising contracts, which prohibited worker movement across locations within a chain. Implementing a staggered difference-indifferences research design using Burning Glass Technologies job vacancies and Glassdoor salary reports from numerous industries, we estimate a 6 percent increase in posted annual earnings from the job vacancy data and a 4 percent increase in worker-reported earnings.
Subjects: 
Employer market power
oligopsony
monopsony
franchising chains
antitrust
wages
salaries
JEL: 
J42
K21
L40
J31
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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