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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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The market forms of monopsony/oligopsony are about the only ones where the introduction of minimum wages goes along …
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This paper explores the optimal design of subsidies for hiring unemployed workers (?employment vouchers? for short) in the context of a dynamic model of the labor market. Focusing on the short-term and long-term effects of the vouchers on employment and unemployment, the analysis shows how the...
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The countervailing power of large buyers subdues the market power of sellers, but price concessions won by large buyers in upstream markets may or may not translate into lower prices downstream as Galbraith (American capitalism: The concept of countervailing power. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, <CitationRef...</citationref>
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This paper analyzes the effects of the minimum wage on wage inequality, relative employment and over-education. We show that over-education can be generated endogenously and that an increase in the minimum wage can raise both total and low-skill employment, and produce a fall in inequality....
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This paper compares the efficiency of profit- and wage-maximizing (PM and WM) monopsony in the labor market. We show … that, both locally and globally, a PM monopsony may well be dominated by its WM twin, where the local and global dominance …
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standard economic theory, the paper explores a simple though neglected mechanism linking land inequality and inefficiency …
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A key feature of monopsony is that a single firm pays its workers a wage ( w) less than the marginal revenue product … counter-intuitive. A deeper exploration shows that the key feature of w < MRP in monopsony cannot be regarded as a solid …
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This paper provides direct evidence on the extent of monopsony power in the low-wage labor market by estimating the …. While this is consistent with perfect competition in simple monopsony models of the labor market, I discuss how the results …
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