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Monopsonistic discrimination, worker turnover, and the gender wage gap
Barth, Erling; Dale-Olsen, Harald - 2009
Motivated by models of worker flows, we argue in this paper that monopsonistic discrimination may be a substantial factor behind the overall gender wage gap. On matched employer-employee data from Norway, we estimate establishment-specific wage premiums separately for men and women, conditioning...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269272
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Cognitive Ability and Paternalism
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2002
This paper analyses the welfare effects of price restrictions on private contracting in a world where agents have a limited cognitive ability. People compute the costs and benefits of entering a transaction with an error. The government knows the distribution of true costs and benefits as well...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262616
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Classic Monopsony or New Monopsony? : Searching for Evidence in Nursing Labor Markets
Schumacher, Edward J.; Hirsch, Barry T. - 2004
The market for hospital registered nurses (RNs) is often offered as an example of ?classic? monopsony, while a ?new …? monopsony literature emphasizes firm labor supply being upwardsloping for reasons other than market structure. Using data from … several sources, we explore the relationship between wages and measures of classic and new monopsony. Micro wage data for 1993 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261903
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Estimating the wage elasticity of labour supply to a firm: What evidence is there for monopsony?
Booth, Alison L.; Katic, Pamela - 2010
In this paper we estimate the elasticity of the labour supply to a firm, using data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey. Estimation of this elasticity is of particular interest not only in its own right but also because of its relevance to the debate about...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274551
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Monopsony power, pay structure and training
Mühlemann, Samuel; Ryan, Paul; Wolter, Stefan - 2011
empirical studies provide direct evidence on it. This paper analyses empirically the effect of monopsony power on pay structure …. These findings have potentially important implications for the economic theory of training, as most recent models assume …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278577
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Elasticity of supply to the firm and the business cycle
Depew, Briggs; Sorensen, Todd - 2011
A body of recent empirical work has found strong evidence that the labor elasticity of supply to the firm is finite, implying that firms may have wage setting power. However, these studies capture only snapshots of the parameter. We study this parameter over a period that provides substantial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280718
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Is there monopsonistic discrimination against immigrants? First evidence from linked employer-employee data
Hirsch, Boris; Jahn, Elke J. - 2012
dynamic monopsony framework. Applying duration models to a large administrative employer-employee data set for Germany, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286866
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Is informal sector work an alternative to workfare benefits? The case of pre-program expansion and economic crisis
Khamis, Melanie - 2009
Limited availability of workfare programs and unemployment insurance and a large informal sector are features of the Argentine labor market at the outset of the 2001 economic crisis. This paper tests the hypothesis whether informal work is an alternative to workfare participation before a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269640
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Labor Market Reforms in Europe: Towards More Flexicure Labor Markets?
Eichhorst, Werner; Marx, Paul; Wehner, Caroline - 2016
Labor market segmentation refers to a salient divide between secure and insecure jobs and is related to problems in important areas, including macro‐economic efficiency, workers' wellbeing and repercussions for social cohesion. European countries have started a new wave of labor market reforms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011479381
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Is Informal Sector Work an Alternative to Workfare Benefits? The Case of Pre-Program Expansion and Economic Crisis
Khamis, Melanie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Limited availability of workfare programs and unemployment insurance and a large informal sector are features of the Argentine labor market at the outset of the 2001 economic crisis. This paper tests the hypothesis whether informal work is an alternative to workfare participation before a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008514870