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. These monopsony models have implications for trends in earnings inequality. The extent of this market power is likely to … local amenities. Building on the Rosen/Roback spatial equilibrium model, we investigate how the existence of local monopsony … offsets the monopsony wage effect and shifts part of the incidence of monopsony to homeowners.Institutional subscribers to the …
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On-demand labor platforms make up a large part of the “gig economy.” We quantify the extent of monopsony power in one …
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How important is the exercise of classical monopsony power against labor for the level of wages and labor's share? We …
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considerable degree of monopsony. We replicate the absence of round number discontinuities in firm labor supply in matched worker … the bunching in the data. The extent of monopsony power implied by our estimated labor supply elasticities, which are in … labor without being driven out of the market in the presence of monopsony power …
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increases over time; (2) consistent with labor market monopsony power, there is a negative relation between local-level employer …
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Estimates are presented of the inverse elasticity of supply of nursing services to the individual hospital, a quantity which is a natural measure of employer market power. The estimates corresponding to employment changes taking place over one year are quite high (in the neighborhood of 0.79)...
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healthcare systems rely on the use of government monopsony power to decrease spending. The United States is a notable exception … economic implications of a greater use of monopsony power in the United States. We present a model of monopsony power and test …
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are below marginal productivity, as with monopsony, employers are able to increase wages without laying off workers, but … monopsony explanation by studying a key low-wage retail sector and using data on labor market concentration that covers the … monopsony model as an explanation for the near-zero minimum wage employment effect documented in prior work. They suggest the …
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This paper tests for and measures monopsony power in the U.S. higher education labor market. It does so by directly … demand instruments. The results indicate that schools have significant monopsony power over their tenure track faculty. Its …-tenure track faculty, however, universities do not seem to have any monopsony power and instead face perfectly elastic residual …
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monopsony), this paper relies on two extensions of Hallʼs econometric framework for estimating simultaneously price-cost margins …
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