concerned with the enforcement of labor regulations and design of social security systems and laws that protect informal workers. …

demonstrate that if labor supply decisions are concentrated along the intensive margin and employment is efficiently rationed, a …

monopsonistic competition among low-wage industries: While retailing, the hotel and restaurant industry as well as agriculture can …

We analyze the redistributive (dis)advantages of a minimum wage over income taxation in competitive labor markets. A …

comprehensive test of monop-sony theory by using labor market concentration as a proxy for monopsony power. Labormarket … concentration turns out substantial in Germany. Absent wage floors, a 10 per-cent increase in labor market concentration makes firms …-fect competition, sectoral minimum wages lead to negative employment effects in slightlyconcentrated labor markets. This effect weakens …

comprehensive test of monopsony theory by using labor market concentration as a proxy for monopsony power. Labor market … concentration turns out substantial in Germany. Absent wage floors, a 10 percent increase in labor market concentration makes firms … competition, sectoral minimum wages lead to negative employment effects in slightly concentrated labor markets. This effect …

monopsonistic characteristics in the labor markets. In this article, I estimate the effects of the minimum wage for the United … States under concentrated labor markets and low-mobility jobs (two variables that measure monopsony), identify heterogeneous ….05. The minimum wage has a positive insignificant effect between 0.04 and 0.29 under full monopsonistic labor markets. The …