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Monopsony power and guest worker programs
Gibbons, Eric M.; Greenman, Allie; Norlander, Peter; … - 2019
, and a pure monopsony (one employer) reduces wages by 13 percent. A simulation shows that wages under pure monopsony could … be 47 percent lower, suggesting that employers do not use the extent of their monopsony power. Enforcing wage regulations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011974378
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Monopsony and the wage effects of migration
Amior, Michael; Manning, Alan - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012213228
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The labor market effects of restricting refugees' employment opportunities
Ahrens, Achim; Beerli, Andreas; Hangartner, Dominik; … - 2023
Refugees, and immigrants more generally, often do not have access to all jobs in the labor market. We argue that restrictions on employment opportunities help explain why immigrants have lower employment and wages than native citizens. To test this hypothesis, we leverage refugees' exogenous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013500760
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The labor market effects of restricting refugees' employment opportunities
Ahrens, Achim; Beerli, Andreas; Hangartner, Dominik; … - 2023
Refugees, and immigrants more generally, often do not have access to all jobs in the labor market. We argue that restrictions on employment opportunities help explain why immigrants have lower employment and wages than native citizens. To test this hypothesis, we leverage refugees' exogenous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013500894
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Immigration, monopsony and the distribution of firm pay
Amior, Michael; Stuhler, Jan - 2024
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014450937
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Immigration, monopsony and the distribution of firm pay
Amior, Michael; Stuhler, Jan - 2023
We argue that the arrival of immigrants with low reservation wages can strengthen the monopsony power of firms. Firms … effects are not inevitable, and may be ameliorated through policies which constrain firms' monopsony power over migrants. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014446109
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Employer monopsony power in the labor market for undocumented workers
Hotchkiss, Julie L.; Quispe-Agnoli, Myriam - 2012 - Rev.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003832918
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Employer Monopsony Power in the Labor Market for Undocumented Workers
Hotchkiss, Julie L. - 2014
monopsony power in the labor market for undocumented workers. Undocumented workers are found to be about 40 percent less …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013070831
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Wage theft, economic conditions, and market power : the case of H-1B workers
DeVaro, Jed; Norlander, Peter - 2021
This study explores what determines employers' violations of the wage contracts of workers on H-1B temporary work visas, which occur when firms pay those workers below the promised prevailing or "market" wage. A theoretical framework is proposed that predicts more violations during economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012520574
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Monopsony in the High-Skilled Migrant Labor Market - Evidence from H-1B Petition Data
Kim, Seohee; Pei, Alison - 2022
This paper assesses the extent of monopsony in the H-1B labor market through the lens of employment concentration and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013308098