Predicted percent change in worker earnings due to the increase in retail wireless labor market concentration if Sprint and T-Mobile merge
Note: “CZs” on y-axis stands for commuting zones. X-axis data labels indicate the lower bound of each bin. The right-most bar on each histogram represents the labor markets that are unaffected by the merger.
Source: Authors’ calculations based on data from Change to Win 2018. Individual panels show change in worker earnings using estimated effects of labor market concentration from Azar, Marinescu, and Steinbaum 2017 (“Azar et al.”); Benmelech, Bergman, and Kim 2018 (“Benmelech et al.”); and Rinz 2018 (see text for details).