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Job Creation or Destruction? Labor-Market Effects of Wal-Mart Expansion (2002)
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Citation Context ...effect could arise from externalities Wal-Mart creates for other retailers in the county. If WalMart increases customer traffic in the store’s vicinity—like an anchor store in a traditional mall (see =-=Pashigian and Gould, 1998-=-)—the number and size of other retailers could increase, leading to an increase in retail employment. At the county level, this effect is likely to be small because of the nontraded nature of retail s... |
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Citation Context ...s slowed employment growth in the French retail industry. 3 Wal-Mart’s lower prices—diffused throughout the local market—may partially offset this effect by increasing demand for retail services (see =-=Basker, 2004-=-). The Review of Economics and Statistics, February 2005, 87(1): 174–183 © 2005 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology retail employment in estab... |
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Suits say Wal-Mart forces workers to toil off the clock.
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Citation Context ...trol.5 Wal-Mart’s cost savings extend to its employment practices; it has been accused of requiring employees to work off the clock and using illegal-immigrant labor (through contractors) (see, e.g., =-=Greenhouse, 2002-=-; Buckley and Daniel, 2003). Such practices, if true, could reduce WalMart’s measured employment without reducing its actual labor inputs. Wal-Mart’s low wages are also said to contribute to its measu... |
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Wal-Mart vs
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Citation Context ...cost savings extend to its employment practices; it has been accused of requiring employees to work off the clock and using illegal-immigrant labor (through contractors) (see, e.g., Greenhouse, 2002; =-=Buckley and Daniel, 2003-=-). Such practices, if true, could reduce WalMart’s measured employment without reducing its actual labor inputs. Wal-Mart’s low wages are also said to contribute to its measured productivity. Wal-Mart... |
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Citation Context ...ns to hire as many as 800,000 additional workers in the next five years. USA Today quotes a retail-industry consultant as saying that Wal-Mart “created more jobs in the 1990s than any other company” (=-=Hopkins, 2003-=-). Has Wal-Mart created more jobs than it destroyed? Given the level of public interest in Wal-Mart and other “big box” retailers, there has been surprisingly little independent research on their impa... |
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Can Wal-Mart Get Any Bigger? Yes, a Lot Bigger
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Citation Context ...dies about Wal-Mart (Ghemawat, 1989; Foley and Mahmood, 1996; Ghemawat and Friedman, 1999). 6 In markets where Wal-Mart competes directly with unionized retailers, it is said to match the union wage (=-=Saporito, 2003-=-). 7 The relevant SIC (NAICS) codes are as follows. Retail: SIC 52–59 except 55 and 58, NAICS 44 except 441 and 447; wholesale: SIC 50–51, NAICS 42; restaurants: SIC 58, NAICS 721; automobile: SIC 55,... |
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Citation Context ...ted Wal-Mart’s “leading logistics and information competencies” (Feiner et al., 2001). The Financial Times has called Wal-Mart “an operation whose efficiency is the envy of the world’s storekeepers” (=-=Edgecliffe-Johnson, 1999-=-). Wal-Mart’s competitive edge is driven by a combination of conventional cost-cutting and sensitivity to demand conditions and by superior logistics and distribution systems. The chain’s most-cited a... |
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case study no
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Citation Context ...ounties over 23 years).7 Unfortunately, CBP does not contain wage data. 5 Details on Wal-Mart’s operations can be found in Harvard Business School’s three case studies about Wal-Mart (Ghemawat, 1989; =-=Foley and Mahmood, 1996-=-; Ghemawat and Friedman, 1999). 6 In markets where Wal-Mart competes directly with unionized retailers, it is said to match the union wage (Saporito, 2003). 7 The relevant SIC (NAICS) codes are as fol... |
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Citation Context ...vations (1,749 counties over 23 years).7 Unfortunately, CBP does not contain wage data. 5 Details on Wal-Mart’s operations can be found in Harvard Business School’s three case studies about Wal-Mart (=-=Ghemawat, 1989-=-; Foley and Mahmood, 1996; Ghemawat and Friedman, 1999). 6 In markets where Wal-Mart competes directly with unionized retailers, it is said to match the union wage (Saporito, 2003). 7 The relevant SIC... |
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Citation Context ...Unfortunately, CBP does not contain wage data. 5 Details on Wal-Mart’s operations can be found in Harvard Business School’s three case studies about Wal-Mart (Ghemawat, 1989; Foley and Mahmood, 1996; =-=Ghemawat and Friedman, 1999-=-). 6 In markets where Wal-Mart competes directly with unionized retailers, it is said to match the union wage (Saporito, 2003). 7 The relevant SIC (NAICS) codes are as follows. Retail: SIC 52–59 excep... |
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Citation Context ...ined if the sample is limited instead to entered counties. 13 Anecdotal evidence suggests that small retailers tend to continue operating as long as they can, even when this is not profit-maximizing (=-=Peled, 2001-=-). 14 The test is imperfect. To see this, suppose Wal-Mart forecasters can predict which counties will experience growth spurts in retail employment over the next few years, and plan to open stores in... |
