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markdowns do not necessarily signal inefficiency and discuss some criteria for assessing misallocation in a monopsony model with … to rationalize patterns of worker-firm sorting. Monopsony models traditionally assume that firms commit to posted wages …. Relaxing this assumption, we develop a connection between the first-order conditions of the monopsony model and models of …
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monopsony power to study the distributional impact of labor market policies over time. Our framework reconciles the well …
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We use novel surveys of firms and workers, linked to administrative employer-employee data, to study the prevalence and importance of individual bargaining in wage determination. We show that simple survey questions accurately elicit firms' bargaining strategies. Using the elicited strategies...
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accommodates both monopsony distortions from buyer power and double-marginalization distortions from seller power. Rather than … the monopoly power of coal mines, with the remainder attributed to the monopsony power of power plants …
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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 …
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We contribute a theory in which three channels interact to determine the degree of monopsony power and therefore the …
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We develop a framework with rich worker heterogeneity, firm monopsony power, and putty-clay technology to study the …
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--incorporating monopsony power, minimum wages, and unemployment. I estimate the extended canonical model using national data and, separately …
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What is the impact of the minimum wage on the college wage premium? I show that job-ladder models imply that the effect should be small on impact---raising only the wages of workers bound by the minimum wage---and grow over time as workers slowly move up the job ladder. Guided by my theory, I...
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Recent wage growth at the bottom of the earnings distribution in the U.S. has reversed a decades-long trend of widening wage inequality. Numerous state and local minimum wage increases have overtaken an effectively non-binding federal minimum, and robust labor demand in the post-pandemic...
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