Measuring Labor Market Competition at the Firm Level

D De la Parra, S Glaeser - Available at SSRN 5088169, 2025 - papers.ssrn.com
We develop firm-level measures of labor mark competition based on the textual similarity,
geographical overlap, job roles, and seniority levels of firms' job market postings. The …

Competing for talent: Large firms and startup growth

J Bessen, F Poege, R Röttger - Academy of Management …, 2024 - journals.aom.org
This paper explores the impact of large firms' hiring in local labor markets on the salaries
offered by startups and on startup growth and performance. We analyze firm data matched to …

Unraveling the effects of COVID-19 on the textile industry in South Asia region: a comparative study of major players

Z Zahra, AR Elahi, W Khan, B Mehmood, M Sohail - Kybernetes, 2024 - emerald.com
Purpose The COVID-19 pandemic has caused widespread disruptions to global industries,
with the textile sector in South Asia being particularly hard hit. While previous studies have …

The Labor Impact of Generative AI on Firm Values

AL Eisfeldt, G Schubert, MB Zhang… - Available at SSRN …, 2023 - papers.ssrn.com
How do recent advances in Generative AI affect firm value? We construct the first measure of
firms' workforce exposures to Generative AI and show that an" Artificial-Minus-Human"(AMH) …

The value of talents

N Sabah, L Thompson, Z Wei - Financial Review, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract We exploit Employment Non‐Discrimination Acts, Paid Family Medical Leave Acts,
and Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act as quasi‐natural experiments to study the value of talents …

Skilled Foreign Labor, Urban Agglomeration, and Value Creation

H Jiang, C Parsons, L Sun, S Titman - Urban Agglomeration, and …, 2023 - papers.ssrn.com
The spatial distribution of H-1B visas, awarded to highly skilled foreign-born workers, is
heavily concentrated in a few key cities. Firms employing more H-1B visa holders have …

Entrepreneurial Spawning from Remote Work

A Kwan, B Matthies, R Townsend… - Available at SSRN …, 2024 - papers.ssrn.com
This paper shows that remote work increases wage workers' transition into
entrepreneurship. Using big data on Internet activities, we create a novel firm-level measure …