The effects of Wal-Mart on local labor markets |
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Authors: | David Neumark Junfu Zhang Stephen Ciccarella |
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Institution: | aDepartment of Economics, UCI, 3151 Social Science Plaza, Irvine, CA 92697, USA;bDepartment of Economics, Clark University, 950 Main St., Worcester, MA 01610, USA;cDepartment of Economics, 404 Uris Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA |
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Abstract: | We estimate the effects of Wal-Mart stores on county-level retail employment and earnings, accounting for endogeneity of the location and timing of Wal-Mart openings that most likely biases the evidence against finding adverse effects of Wal-Mart stores. We address the endogeneity problem using a natural instrumental variables approach that arises from the geographic and time pattern of the opening of Wal-Mart stores, which slowly spread out from the first stores in Arkansas. The employment results indicate that a Wal-Mart store opening reduces county-level retail employment by about 150 workers, implying that each Wal-Mart worker replaces approximately 1.4 retail workers. This represents a 2.7 percent reduction in average retail employment. The payroll results indicate that Wal-Mart store openings lead to declines in county-level retail earnings of about $1.4 million, or 1.5 percent. Of course, these effects occurred against a backdrop of rising retail employment, and only imply lower retail employment growth than would have occurred absent the effects of Wal-Mart. |
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Keywords: | Wal-Mart Employment Earnings |
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