Gibbons, Eric M.; Greenman, Allie; Norlander, Peter; … - 2019
markets, based on federal merger scrutiny guidelines, and that concentration generally decreases wages. For example, moving … from a market with an HHI of zero to a market comprised of two employers lowers H-1B worker wages approximately 10 percent …, and a pure monopsony (one employer) reduces wages by 13 percent. A simulation shows that wages under pure monopsony could …
