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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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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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Modern models of monopsony in labor markets: A brief survey
Ashenfelter, Orley C.; Farber, Henry S.; Ransom, Michael R. - 2010
This brief survey contains a review of several new empirical papers that attempt to measure the extent of monopsony in … income transfer away from workers. The evidence surveyed from a fairly broad range of labor markets suggests that monopsony …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273868
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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 …
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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Trade Liberalization and Child Labor in China
Zhao, Liqiu; Wang, Fei; Zhao, Zhong - 2016
This paper exploits a quasi-natural experiment – the U.S. granting of Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) to China … after China's accession to the World Trade Organization – to examine whether trade liberalization affects the incidence of … child labor in China. PNTR permanently set U.S. duties on Chinese imports at low Normal Trade Relations (NTR) levels and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011584610
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Good Jobs, Bad Jobs: What's Trade Got To Do With It?
Lake, James; Millimet, Daniel L. - 2016
Using US local labor markets between 1990 and 2010, we analyze the heterogeneous impact of rising trade exposure on employment growth of 'good' and 'bad' jobs. Three salient findings emerge. First, rising local exposure to import competition, via falling US tariffs or rising Chinese import...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011479332
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Trade Liberalization and the Gender Employment Gap in China
Wang, Feicheng; Kis-Katos, Krisztina; Zhou, Minghai - 2020
in China. Combining data from population and firm censuses between 1990 and 2005, we relate prefecture-level employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012322425