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 …

We argue that the arrival of immigrants with low reservation wages can strengthen the monopsony power of firms. Firms … in wage premia and employment across the firm pay distribution, during a large immigration wave in Germany. These adverse … effects are not inevitable, and may be ameliorated through policies which constrain firms' monopsony power over migrants. …

Motivated by models of worker flows, we argue in this paper that monopsonistic discrimination may be a substantial …-educated workers ranges from 20 to 70 percent. -- Gender wage gap ; monopsony …

We use a simple framework, adopted from general equilibrium search models, to estimate the extent to which monopsony … labor supply predict wage differences that are close to the observed male/female wage differences at the firm. -- monopsony … ; gender ; discrimination …

We use a simple framework, adopted from general equilibrium search models, to estimate the extent to which monopsony …

Motivated by models of worker flows, we argue in this paper that monopsonistic discrimination may be a substantial …

This article appeals to heterogeneity in workers' non-wage preferences to model taste-based discrimination. Firms hire … both types of workers and pay lower wages to minority workers, whatever their taste for discrimination. A single prejudiced … firm in the market produces a substantial wage gap in all firms. Consequently, discrimination allows unprejudiced firms to …

A central hypothesis about discrimination is that prejudice forces the stigmatized into low paying, undesirable jobs … emerge. By contrast in competitive free markets, exclusionary discrimination often occurs but does not reduce workers' pay … discrimination is misguided: exclusion does not necessarily imply disadvantage; a shortfall in pay does not necessarily imply that …

monopsony power in the labor market for undocumented workers. Undocumented workers are found to be about 40 percent less …

have monopsony power over undocumented workers because the undocumented may find it costly to participate in the open labor …