[tom-_-]

The paper shows employment elasticity wrt to wages is very low (Table 4, 5 page 50, 51).

Sure, many workers would choose the less labor intensive Target job over the shitty Amazon warehouse job for the same wage but in many of the warehouse locations, there is simply not that much demand for low-skilled labor, otherwise the market would bear that out.

Also, Amazon has more opportunities for career paths/upward mobility than a local Target/Home Depot.