Job Creation or Destruction? Labor Market Effects of Wal-Mart Expansion

By Emek Basker. Review of Economics and Statistics, 2005

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Marketing

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Supersizing Supercenters? The Impact of Wal-Mart Supercenters on Body Mass Index and Obesity (2011, background): “Basker and Noel (2009) estimate Walmart’s effect on a number of food prices. The largest price effect is for margarine, but the second-largest is for lettuce and the smallest price decreases are for soda, shortening, ground beef, sugar, and eggs. The effects on the prices of milk and parmesan cheese”
Selling a Cheaper Mousetrap: Wal-Mart's Effect on Retail Prices (2005, neutral): “This procedure is detailed in Basker [3], Appendix 1.”
The Causes and Consequences of Wal-Mart's Growth (2007, methodology): “Computations from Basker and Van (2007) indicate that improvement in Wal-Mart’s technology have reduced its cost of operating a large chain.”
Entry Barriers in Retail Trade (2011, neutral): “The effects on sectoral employment are more controversial and subject of an ongoing debate (Basker 2005a, Basker 2006, Neumark, Zhang & Ciccarella 2008).”
Food Prices and Modern Retail: The Case of Delhi (2010, background): “Some empirical and theoretical studies also indicate the importance of change in competition level in the market at industry level including two recent studies by Basker (2005) and Lira et.”
The Effects of Wal-Mart on Local Labor Markets (2006, neutral): “Since the average number of workers in a Wal-Mart store is about 360 (Basker, 2005b), the estimated employment decline (using a figure of 150, close to the equation (1’) estimate) implies that each Wal-Mart worker takes the place of 1.4 retail workers.”
Market Selection, Reallocation, and Restructuring in the U.S. Retail Trade Sector in the 1990s (2006, neutral): “This influence was felt throughout the retail trade sector because Wal-Mart competes with retailers across many categories including general merchandise stores, drug stores, apparel stores, and grocery stores (Basker (2005)).”
The Evolving Food Chain: Competitive Effects of Wal‐Mart's Entry into the Supermarket Industry (2007, neutral): “Basker (2005) uses a data set of all Wal-Mart’s store locations and opening dates to estimate its effect on average prices of drugstore items such as shampoo and toothpaste, but the prices she uses are average prices across a large number of surveyed establishments, and may include Wal-Mart’s own…”
Retail Globalization and Household Welfare: Evidence from Mexico (2015, background): “Basker (2005) analyzes effects on retail employment. Jia (2008) focuses on entry and exit decisions between Walmart and competing retailers. Hausman and Leibtag (2007) estimate the consumer benefits of Walmart entry.”
Estimating Network Economies in Retail Chains: A Revealed Preference Approach (2010, methodology): “4 We also contribute to a growing literature on Wal-Mart itself, which includes Basker (2005, 2007), Ellickson and Grieco (2013), Ellickson, Misra, and Nair (2012), Hausman and Leibtag (2007), Neumark, Zhang, and Ciccarella (2008), Zhu and Singh (2009), and Zhu, Singh, and Manuszak (2009).”
When Walmart comes to town: Always low housing prices? Always? (2015, positive): “In fact, Basker (2005b), Hausman and Leibtag (2007), and Basker and Noel (2009) have shown that Walmart ‘‘supercenters’’ that sell groceries offer many identical food items as other grocers at an average price that is substantially lower than their competitors. Hausman and Leibtag (2007) also find t”
What Happens When Wal‐Mart Comes to Town: An Empirical Analysis of the Discount Retailing Industry (2008, methodology): “Together they imply D∗ m = 1[Xm + 2δ P l∈Bm D ∗ l ≥ 0], which is the necessary condition (3) mentioned in section 5.”