Global Labor Market Power

Francesco Amodio, Emanuele Brancati, Peter Brummond (), Nicolás de Roux and Michele Di Maio
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Peter Brummond: University of Alabama
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No 2404, RFBerlin Discussion Paper Series from Rockwool Foundation Berlin (RF Berlin)

Abstract: We estimate the labor market power of over 13,000 manufacturing establishments across 82 low and middle-income countries around the world. Within local labor markets, larger and more productive firms have higher wage markdowns and pay lower wages. Labor market power across countries exhibits a mild non-linear relationship with GDP per capita, entirely driven by a strong hump-shaped relationship with the share of self-employed workers. Labor market institutions fully account for the hump shape: in countries with unemployment protection, wage markdowns increase with the share of self-employment while the opposite is true in countries without it. We explain this finding through the lens of a simple oligopsonistic labor market model with frictions. Self-employment prevalence correlates with the elasticity of labor supply to the wage paid, and labor market institutions can change the sign of this relationship.

Keywords: labor market power; self-employment; development; labor market institutions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J20 J30 J42 L11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024-02
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