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Minimum wages in concentrated labor markets
Popp, Martin - 2021
Economists increasingly refer to monopsony power to reconcile the absence of negativeemployment effects of minimum … comprehensive test of monop-sony theory by using labor market concentration as a proxy for monopsony power. Labormarket …, theresults lend empirical support to the monopsony argument, implying that conventionalminimum wage effects on employment conceal …
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Catching hipo's : screening, wages and unemployment
Janssen, Maarten C. W. - 2000
In this paper, I study the wage a firm sets to attract high abilityworkers (hipo's) in situationsof unemployment. I show that the higher unemployment, the larger afirm's incentives to sorthigh and low ability workers. Moreover, workers will signal their(high) ability in situationsof (high)...
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Higher education expansion and labor market outcomes for young college graduates
Ou, Dongshu; Zhao, Zhong - 2016
We examine the causal impact of China's higher education expansion on labor market outcomes for young college graduates using China's 2005 1% Population Sample Survey. Exploiting variation in the expansion of university spots across provinces and high school cohorts and applying a...
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Worker beliefs about outside options
Jäger, Simon; Roth, Christopher; Roussille, Nina; … - 2021
model, such anchoring can give rise to monopsony and labor market segmentation. In line with the model, misperceptions are …
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Monopsony and labour market flows and policies
Kumar, Alok - In: The Indian journal of labour economics : a quarterly … 48 (2005) 3, pp. 463-474
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Inclusivity in the labor market
ElGanainy, Asmaa Adel; Ernst, Ekkehard; Merola, Rossana; … - 2021
Labor earnings are the dominant income source for most individuals. Thus, an inclusive labor market is key for ensuring inclusive growth. In this paper we propose four principles that an inclusive labor market will embody: access, fairness, protection and voice. While measuring inclusivity...
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Tax policy in imperfect labor markets
Hummel, Albert Jan - 2020
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Hysteresis via endogenous rigidity in wages and participation
Doniger, Cynthia L.; López-Salido, José David - 2017
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The distributional impact of the minimum wage in the short and long run
Hurst, Erik; Kehoe, Patrick J.; Pastorino, Elena; … - 2022
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Information frictions and labor market outcomes
Cardoso, Ana Rute; Loviglio, Annalisa; Piemontese, Lavinia - 2015
We analyze the impact of information frictions on workers' wages, contributing to the literature that tested search theory, which has so far focused on labor market frictions in general and not specifically on information asymmetries. Using data for 16 countries from the European Social Survey...
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