This paper brings together the modern literatures on monopsony power and labor unions by empirically examining the …

This paper studies the implications of monopsony power for optimal income taxation and welfare. Firms observe workers …' abilities while the government does not and monopsony power determines what share of the labor market surplus is translated into … profits. Monopsony power increases the tax incidence that falls on firms. This makes labor income taxes less (more) effective …

Does competition in the labor market affect wage inequality? Standard textbook monopsony models predict that lower …

residential areas are more likely to report discrimination because of their ethnic background. This applies to both segregated … most neighbors are immigrants from other countries of origin. The results suggest that housing discrimination rather than …

When employers face a trade-off between growing large and paying low wages - that is, when they have monopsony power … adverse consequences for aggregate labor productivity. Using high-quality administrative data from Germany, we document that … smaller. A model with labor market monopsony, product market power, and customer acquisition matching these features of the …

We empirically test the relationship between hiring discrimination and labour market tightness at the level of the … discrimination ; ethnic discrimination ; labour market tightness ; field experiments …

economic costs to society of sexual-orientation discrimination were significantly more likely than those in a control group to …