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Is Wal-Mart a Monopsony? Evidence from Local Labor Markets

Bonanno, Alessandro; Lopez, Rigoberto A. - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009

-Mart’s buying power index in labor markets in rural southern and central states is estimated to be 5% or higher while the impact on …

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Wal-Mart’s Monopsony Power in Local Labor Markets

Bonanno, Alessandro; Lopez, Rigoberto - Zwick Center for Food and Resource Policy, Department … - 2008

analysis on the topic. This paper measures and tests for Wal-Mart’s monopsony power in local labor markets using a dominant … instance, Wal-Mart’s buying power index in labor markets in rural southern central states is estimated to be 6% or higher while …

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Taxes and Wages

hassett, kevin allen; Mathur, Aparna - American Enterprise Institute - 2009

To what are wage rates responsive? Does labor bear the burden of taxes? …

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Barbados: Meeting the Challenge of Competitiveness in the 21st Century

Thomas, Desmond; Rojas-Suárez, Liliana; Poon, Auliana; … - Inter-American Development Bank

The material within these pages shows that Barbados, a Caribbean country with just over a quarter of a million people, embodies many of the classic vulnerabilities of an island with a small open economy, yet aspires to developed-country status, and is already well advanced on the road to...

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What Difference Do Unions Make?: Their Impact on Productivity and Wages in Latin America

Murillo, Maria Victoria; Carmen Urízar H.; … - Inter-American Development Bank

The subject of labor unions in Latin America provokes a variety of diverse and strongly held views. While some see …

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Wage Inequality

Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M. - American Enterprise Institute

The authors find that wage differences are wider in the United Sates and that those wider differences are concentrated mainly among the lowest paid.

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Monopsony in the Low-Wage Labor Market? Evidence from Minimum Nurse Staffing Regulations

Matsudaira, Jordan D. - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 96 (2014) 1, pp. 92-102

This paper provides direct evidence on the extent of monopsony power in the low-wage labor market by estimating the … firm-level elasticity of labor supply for nurse aides in the long-term care (nursing home) industry. Using exogenous …. While this is consistent with perfect competition in simple monopsony models of the labor market, I discuss how the results …

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Trade and Labor Outcomes in Latin America's Rural Areas: A Cross-Household Surveys Approach

Gasparini, Leonardo; Gutiérrez, Federico; Porto, Guido G. - Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, Universidad Nacional … - 2005

This paper explores the potential link between trade and labor outcomes in rural areas in Latin America by estimating …. We find a significant positive association between labor outcomes in rural areas and some measures of international trade … higher wages and labor income in rural areas, in particular for those workers located in the bottom quantiles of the …

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Quality Management and Job Quality: How the ISO 9001 Standard forQuality Management Systems Affects Employees and Employers

Levine, David I.; Toffel, Michael W. - Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE), … - 2008

Several studies have examined how the ISO 9001 Quality Management System standard affects organizational outcomes such as profits. This is the first large-scale study to examine its effects on employee outcomes such as employment, earnings, and health and safety. We analyzed a matched sample of...

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Quality Management and Job Quality: How the ISO 9001 Standard for Quality Management Systems Affects Employees and Employers

Levine, David I.; Toffel, Michael W. - In: Management Science 56 (2010) 6, pp. 978-996

Several studies have examined how the ISO 9001 quality management systems standard predicts changes in organizational outcomes such as profits. This is the first large-scale study to explore how employee outcomes such as employment, earnings, and health and safety change when employers adopt ISO...

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