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Wages, hires, and labor market concentration
Marinescu, Ioana; Ouss, Ivan; Pape, Louis-Daniel - 2020
zone in France using linked employer-employee data. Using instrumental variables with worker and firm fixed effects, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012213951
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Inequality and market concentration, when shareholding is more skewed than consumption
Gans, Joshua; Leigh, Andrew; Schmalz, Martin C.; … - 2018
Economic theory suggests that monopoly prices hurt consumers but benefit shareholders. But in a world where individuals …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011958679
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Rottenberg and the economics of sport after 50 years : an evaluation
Sloane, Peter J. (contributor) - 2006
. -- sport ; monopsony ; monopoly power …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003339770
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Policies to promote growth and economic efficiency in Mexico
Arias, Javier; Azuara, Oliver; Bernal, Pedro; Heckman, … - 2010
This paper discusses the problems facing the Mexican economy. It operates under a heavy burden of monopoly and … heavy burden of monopoly and regulation. We find little evidence that the introduction of social protection programs for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003939090
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Competition vs. monopoly in the religious marketplace : Judaism in the United States and Israel
Chiswick, Carmel Ullman - 2013
ideas. The "Sacred Canopy" paradigm views it necessary for social stability to grant monopoly power to an official state …. Judaism in Israel illustrates the outcome in a monopoly experiencing potential competition, possibly leading to an oligopoly … structure. -- religion ; religious marketplace ; new paradigm ; monopoly ; competition ; Judaism …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009699440
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The cyclical behaviour of employers' monopsony power and workers' wages
Hirsch, Boris; Jahn, Elke J.; Schnabel, Claus - 2013
This paper investigates the behaviour of employers' monopsony power and workers' wages over the business cycle. Using German administrative linked employer-employee data for the years 1985-2010 and an estimation framework based on duration models, we construct a time series of the firm-level...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010222161
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Monopsony makes firms not only small but also unproductive : why East Germany has not converged
Bachmann, Ruediger; Bayer, Christian; Stüber, Heiko; … - 2022
When employers face a trade-off between growing large and paying low wages - that is, when they have monopsony power - some productive employers will decide to acquire fewer customers, forgo sales, and remain small. These decisions have adverse consequences for aggregate labor productivity....
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Does immigration improve quality of care in nursing homes?
Furtado, Delia; Ortega, Francesc - 2020
The growing healthcare needs of baby boomers require significant increases in the number or productivity of healthcare workers. This paper explores how immigrants may fill these gaps in nursing homes. First, we show that immigrant inflows are associated with reduced wages of lower skilled nurses...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012257822
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Monopsony power and guest worker programs
Gibbons, Eric M.; Greenman, Allie; Norlander, Peter; … - 2019
Guest workers on visas in the United States may be unable to quit bad employers due to barriers to mobility and a lack of labor market competition. Using H-1B, H-2A, and H-2B program data, we calculate the concentration of employers in geographically defined labor markets within occupations. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011974378
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Do Dutch dentists extract monopoly rents?
Ketel, Nadine; Leuven, Edwin; Oosterbeek, Hessel; … - 2018
outcomes. The natural explanation is that Dutch dentists extract a monopoly rent, which we attribute to the limited supply of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011802973