Over the last thirty years, there has been a rise in several empirical measures of local labor market monopsony power … lower monopsony wages by moving to other more competitive local labor markets featuring a higher skill price vector. We …. Monopsony markets are predicted to experience a "brain drain" over time. Using data over four decades we document this …

We contribute a theory in which three channels interact to determine the degree of monopsony power and therefore the …

have monopsony power over undocumented workers because the undocumented may find it costly to participate in the open labor …

other firms. This informational advantage gives the employer an ex post monopsony power over the worker which encourages the … high, and as a result employers have limited monopsony power and are willing to supply only little training, while in … explanations of firm sponsored training. Using microdata from Germany, we show that the predictions of the specific human capital …

administrative data from Germany and Sweden. We first conduct an event-study analysis of couples moving across commuting zones and … find that relocation increases men's earnings more than women's, with strikingly similar patterns in Germany and Sweden … using variation in norms within Germany. We then develop and estimate a model of household decision-making in which …