One Battle After Another: Union Busting as Strategic Deterrence
Spillovers from Sectoral Bargaining: Evidence from California’s $20 Fast Food Minimum Wage (with Ellora Derenoncourt)
We explore the direct and spillover effects of California's \$20 minimum wage in the fast food sector. The wage hike applied to limited-service, immediate consumption restaurant chains with at least 60 establishments nationwide. We use payroll data to assess the effects of the policy on wages and employment of covered firms as well as their spillover effects to uncovered firms based on sector (fast food versus other service and retail) and firm structure (franchise vs. non-franchise and multi- versus single establishment firms). We use data on local labor market characteristics, such as tightness and concentration, and employment flows across sectors to explore potential channels for transmission to non-covered firms.
Robots, Jobs, and Organized Labor (with Meghana Gaur)
Rationing vs. Monopsony: A New Test for Labor Market Power (with Simon Jäger and Benjamin Schoefer)
