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Selection wages and discrimination
Schlicht, Ekkehart - 2009
Applicants for any given job are more or less suited to fill it, and the firm will select the best among them. Increasing the wage offer attracts more applicants and makes it possible to raise the hiring standard and improve the productivity of the staff. Wages that optimize on the trade-off...
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Selection wages and discrimination
Schlicht, Ekkehart - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 4 (2010) 2010-6, pp. 1-30
Applicants for any given job are more or less suited to fill it, and the firm will select the best among them. Increasing the wage offer attracts more applicants and makes it possible to raise the hiring standard, thereby improving the productivity of the staff. Wages that optimize on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299945
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Optimal Procurement Auction for a Buyer with Downward Sloping Demand: More Simple Economics
Burguet, Roberto - 2004
A buyer with downward slopping demand faces a number of unit supply sellers. The paper characterizes optimal auctions in this setting. For the symmetric case, a uniform auction (with price equal to lowest rejected offer) is optimal when complemented with reserve prices for different quantities...
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Product and Labor Market Imperfections and Scale Economies: Micro-Evidence on France, Japan and the Netherlands
Dobbelaere, Sabien; Kiyota, Kozo; Mairesse, Jacques - 2013
monopsony), this paper relies on an extension of Hall's econometric framework for estimating simultaneously price-cost margins …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326464
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Anmerkungen zum Monopson am Arbeitsmarkt II
Sell, Friedrich L.; Ruf, Ernst K. - 2014
Mindestlöhne im nicht diskriminierenden Monopson auf Beschäftigung bzw. Kapitalintensität auswirken. Dabei kann der Mindestlohn in … exakte Lösung für das Monopson. In der Regel lassen sich aber die Lösungsbedingungen nur implizit und über geeignete … Kapitalintensität höher ausfällt als diejenige, die er im unreglementierten Monopson wählt. Schließlich wird in einer …
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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 …
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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