Arbeitspapier

Labor Market Power in Developing Countries: Evidence from Colombian Plants

How much can employers in low and middle-income countries suppress wages below marginal productivity? Using plant and customs data from Colombia, we exploit pre- determined variation across plants in sales export destination combined with variation in exchange rates to generate plant-specific shocks to marginal revenue productivity and labor demand. We estimate a firm-level labor supply elasticity of around 2.5, implying that workers produce about 40% more than their wage level. Our results indicate that Colombian and US manufacturers have a comparable degree of labor market power.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 14390

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Monopsony; Segmented Labor Markets
Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance: General
Industrialization; Manufacturing and Service Industries; Choice of Technology
Economywide Country Studies: Latin America; Caribbean
Thema
labor market power
export
Colombia

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Amodio, Francesco
de Roux, Nicolás
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2021

Handle
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10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Amodio, Francesco
  • de Roux, Nicolás
  • Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2021

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