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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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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 imperfections and the firm's wage setting policy
Félix, Sónia; Portugal, Pedro - 2016
that firm's monopsony power affects negatively the earnings of its workers and firm's total factor productivity is … considerably associated with higher earnings, ceteris paribus. We also find that firms use monopsony power for wage differentiation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011543455
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Monopsonistic competition, low-wage labour markets, and minimum wages : an empirical analysis
Bachmann, Ronald; Frings, Hanna - 2016
This paper investigates the degree of monopsony power of employers in different industries against the background of a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011480762
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Labour market concentration, wages and job security in Europe
Bassanini, Andrea; Bovini, Giulia; Caroli, Eve; … - 2022
We investigate the impact of labour market concentration on two dimensions of job quality, namely wages and job security. We leverage rich administrative linked employer-employee data from Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal and Spain in the 2010s to provide the first comparable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013186729
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The impact of centralized bargaining on spillovers and the wage structure in monopsonistic labour markets
Bassier, Ihsaan - 2021
How does centralized bargaining affect the broader wage structure? And what does this tell us about the (non-)competitive dynamics of such labour markets? I study large contracted wage increases negotiated by centralized bargaining councils in South Africa, using matched employer- employee tax...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012608584