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The dynamics of power in labor markets : monopolistic unions versus monopsonistic employers
Dodini, Samuel; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Willén, Alexander - 2021
This paper brings together the modern literatures on monopsony power and labor unions by empirically examining the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012745267
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The dynamics of product and labor market power : evidence from Lithuania
Ding, Ziran; Garcia-Louzao, Jose; Jouvanceau, Valentin - 2024
the other hand, we document a decline in monopsony power, as both the heterogeneity and the aggregate level of markdowns …
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Monopsonistic labor markets and international trade
Jha, Priyaranjan; Rodríguez López, Antonio - 2019
degree of monopsony power is captured by the elasticity of firm-level labor supply, with a lower elasticity implying more … wage-setting power by the firm. With more productive firms paying higher wages, monopsony power dampens the impact of firm … inequality, but in an open economy high levels of monopsony power inhibit exporting, which may reduce inequality by compressing …
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Exporting and offshoring with monopsonistic competition
Egger, Hartmut; Kreickemeier, Udo; Moser, Christoph; … - 2019
productivity, and firms with low productivities exit the market. This reduces the monopsony distortion present in autarky, where … other hand gives firms additional scope for exercising their monopsony power by reducing their domestic size, and as a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012040100
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The "Matthew effect" and market concentration : search complementarities and monopsony power
Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús; Mandelman, Federico S.; … - 2021
concentration fosters monopsony power in the labor market, magnifying profits and further enhancing high-productivity firms' output … share. Firms want to get bigger and hire more workers, in stark contrast with the classic monopsony model, where a firm aims … to reduce the amount of labor it hires. The combination of search complementarities and monopsony power induces a strong …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012433938
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Students are almost as effective as professors in university teaching
Feld, Jan; Salamanca, Nicolás; Zölitz, Ulf - 2019
In a previous paper, we have shown that academic rank is largely unrelated to tutorial teaching effectiveness. In this paper, we further explore the effectiveness of the lowest-ranked instructors: students. We confirm that students are almost as effective as senior instructors, and we produce...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012039001
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Are professors worth it? : the value-added and costs of tutorial instructors
Feld, Jan; Salamanca, Nicolás; Zölitz, Ulf - 2018
A substantial share of university instruction happens in tutorial sessions - small group instruction given parallel to lectures. In this paper, we study whether instructors with a higher academic rank teach tutorials more effectively in a setting where students are randomly assigned to tutorial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011936343
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Do role models matter in large classes? : new evidence on gender match effects in higher education
Maurer, Stephan; Schwerdt, Guido; Wiederhold, Simon - 2023
We study whether female students benefit from being taught by female professors, and whether such gender match effects differ by class size. We use administrative records of a German public university, covering all programs and courses between 2006 and 2018. We find that gender match effects on...
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The effects of professor gender on the post-graduation outcomes of female students
Mansour, Hani; Rees, Daniel I.; Rintala, Bryson M.; … - 2022
Although women earn approximately 50 percent of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) bachelor's degrees, more than 70 percent of scientists and engineers are men. We explore a potential determinant of this STEM gender gap using newly collected data on the career trajectories of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013167153
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Can you leave high school behind?
Black, Sandra E.; Lincove, Jane Arnold; Cullinane, Jenna; … - 2014
In recent years, many states, including California, Texas, and Oregon, have changed admissions policies to increase access to public universities for students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds. A key concern, however, is how these students will perform. This paper examines the relationship...
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