Market Power & Within-Firm Inequality

Pantelis Kazakis

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Abstract: Income inequality in the United States is on the rise. At the same time, firm market power has also increased. In this paper, I attempt to shed light on the relation between these two variables. Using data for U.S. firms I find a positive relation between market power and top executive pay. I also find that market power is positively associated with executive wage-to-employee wage ratios, potentially indicating that market power is a force that increases within-firm inequality

Keywords: within-firm inequality; CEO & executive pay; firm markups; competition (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J2 J31 J33 L1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022-04-21
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