Product Market Competition and Human Resource Practices: An Analysis of the Retail Food Sector

Elizabeth Davis, Matthew Freedman, Julia Lane, Brian McCall, Nicole Nestoriak and Timothy Park

No 14349, Working Papers from University of Minnesota, The Food Industry Center

Abstract: The rise of super-centers and the entry of Wal-Mart into food retailing have dramatically altered the competitive environment in the industry. This paper explores the impact of such changes on the labor market practices of traditional food retailers. We use longitudinal data on workers and firms to construct new measures of compensation and employment, and examine how these measures evolve within and across firms in response to changes in product market structure. An additional feature of the analysis is to combine rich case study knowledge about the retail food industry with the new matched employer-employee data from the Census Bureau.

Keywords: Labor and Human Capital; Marketing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 47
Date: 2005
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (3)

Downloads: (external link)
https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/14349/files/tr05-03.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
Working Paper: Product Market Competition and Human Resource Practices: An Analysis of the Retail Food Sector
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ags:umrfwp:14349

DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.14349

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Working Papers from University of Minnesota, The Food Industry Center Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by AgEcon Search ().