Global Labor Market Power

Francesco Amodio, Emanuele Brancati, Peter Brummund, Nicolás de Roux and Michele Di Maio ()
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Michele Di Maio: Sapienza University

No 21072, Documentos CEDE from Universidad de los Andes, Facultad de Economía, CEDE

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)
Pages: 47 pages
Date: 2024-03-11
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