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Labour market power and between-firm wage (in)equality
Mertens, Matthias - 2021 - This draft: May 18, 2021
-2016). In past decades, labour market power increasingly moderated rising between-firm wage inequality. This is becausehigh …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012514882
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Labour market power and between-firm wage (in)equality
Mertens, Matthias - 2021 - This draft: May 18, 2021
-2016). In past decades, labour market power increasingly moderated rising between-firm wage inequality. This is becausehigh …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012514890
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Labour market power and between-firm wage (in)equality
Mertens, Matthias - 2020
marginal revenue products of labour (MRPL), increasingly moderated rising between-firm wage inequality. This is because small …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012261228
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Labour market power and between-firm wage (in)equality
Mertens, Matthias - 2020
marginal revenue products of labour (MRPL), increasingly moderated rising between-firm wage inequality. This is because small …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012261403
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The wage-setting power of firms : rent-sharing and monopsony in South Africa
Bassier, Ihsaan - 2019
of monopsony fail to use firm-level wage variation. I address this by using the estimated firm wage premia to estimate … how wages are related to rent-sharing and monopsony power. I find that the average worker switching from a firm in the 25 … distribution of monopsony, as measured by the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index in industry-by-local labour market hires, decreases wages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012003704
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Organised labour, labour market imperfections, and employer wage premia
Dobbelaere, Sabien; Hirsch, Boris; Müller, Steffen; … - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle - 2023 - This version: 13.11.2023
This paper examines how collective bargaining through unions and workplace co-determination through works councils relate to labour market imperfections and how labour market imperfections relate to employer wage premia. Based on representative German plant data for the years 1999-2016, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014425610
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Monopsony power and labor income inequality in Mexico
Cazzuffi, Chiara; Pereira-López, Mariana; Rosales, Irving - 2023
We examine the impact of changes in local labor market concentration on two components of income inequality in Mexico …: local wage shares and labor income inequality. Combining data from the Economic Census and the Population and Housing … Censuses, we analyze the mechanisms that drive the relationship between concentration and labor income inequality by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014455470
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Rent sharing, wage floors, and development
Budlender, Joshua; Bassier, Ihsaan - 2023
Faced with more favourable demand conditions, many firms raise wages. However, we show that firms with labour market power, lower productivity, and binding wage floors will absorb these positive revenue productivity shocks as excess profits instead of increasing wages or employment. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014422416
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Labor market power, self-employment, and development
Amodio, Francesco; Medina, Pamela; Morlacco, Monica - 2022
This paper shows that self-employment opportunities shape the market power of employers in low-income countries, with implications for industrial development. Using data from Peru, we document substantial employer concentration and high self-employment rates across manufacturing local labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013343285
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Labor market power, self-employment, and development
Amodio, Francesco; Medina, Pamela; Morlacco, Monica - 2024
This paper shows that self-employment shapes labor market power in low-income countries, affecting industrial development. Using Peruvian data, we show that wage-setting power increases with concentration, but less so where self-employment is more prevalent. A general equilibrium model shows...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015074510