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Is There Monopsonistic Discrimination against Immigrants? First Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data
Hirsch, Boris; Jahn, Elke J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
dynamic monopsony framework. Applying duration models to a large administrative employer–employee data set for Germany, we …
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Monopsonistic Discrimination, Worker Turnover, and the Gender Wage Gap
Barth, Erling; Dale-Olsen, Harald - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Motivated by models of worker flows, we argue in this paper that monopsonistic discrimination may be a substantial factor behind the overall gender wage gap. On matched employer-employee data from Norway, we estimate establishment-specific wage premiums separately for men and women, conditioning...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005019399
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Elasticity of Supply to the Firm and the Business Cycle
Depew, Briggs; Sorensen, Todd - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
A body of recent empirical work has found strong evidence that the labor elasticity of supply to the firm is finite, implying that firms may have wage setting power. However, these studies capture only snapshots of the parameter. We study this parameter over a period that provides substantial...
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Firm Market Power and the Earnings Distribution
Webber, Douglas A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Using linked employer-employee data, I compute firm-level measures of the labor supply elasticity facing each private non-farm firm in the US. I provide the first direct evidence of the positive relationship between a firm's labor supply elasticity and the earnings of its workers. I also...
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Firm-Level Monopsony and the Gender Pay Gap
Webber, Douglas A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Using a dynamic labor supply model and linked employer-employee data, I find evidence of substantial search frictions, with females facing a higher level of frictions than males. However, the majority of the gender gap in labor supply elasticities is driven by across firm sorting rather than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010638882
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Optimal Taxation and Monopsonistic Labor Market: Does Monopsony Justify the Minimum Wage?
Cahuc, Pierre; Laroque, Guy - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
We analyze optimal taxation in an economy with monopsonistic labor markets. The individuals, whose only decisions are whether to work, or not, have heterogeneous productivities and opportunity costs of work. Given its preferences for redistribution, the government, which does not observe the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822064
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Classic Monopsony or New Monopsony? Searching for Evidence in Nursing Labor Markets
Hirsch, Barry T.; Schumacher, Edward J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
The market for hospital registered nurses (RNs) is often offered as an example of “classic” monopsony, while a “new …” monopsony literature emphasizes firm labor supply being upwardsloping for reasons other than market structure. Using data from … several sources, we explore the relationship between wages and measures of classic and new monopsony. Micro wage data for 1993 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822249
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Gender Differences in Labor Supply to Monopsonistic Firms: An Empirical Analysis Using Linked Employer-Employee Data from Germany
Hirsch, Boris; Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
model of new monopsony. Using methods of survival analysis and a linked employer-employee dataset for Germany, we find that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822550
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Sex Differences in Pay in a "New Monopsony" Model of the Labor Market
Ransom, Michael R.; Oaxaca, Ronald L. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
We use a simple framework, adopted from general equilibrium search models, to estimate the extent to which monopsony …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703000
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Local Employer Competition and Training of Workers
Rzepka, Sylvi; Tamm, Marcus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
The new training literature suggests that in a monopsonistic market employers will not only pay for firm-specific training but also for general training if the risk of poaching is limited. This implies that training participation should decrease when competition for employees is higher among...
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