This brief survey contains a review of several new empirical papers that attempt to measure the extent of monopsony in labor markets. As noted originally by Joan Robinson, monopsonistic exploitation represents the gap between the value of a worker's marginal product and the worker's wage, and it...

This brief survey contains a review of several new empirical papers that attempt to measure the extent of monopsony in labor markets. As noted originally by Joan Robinson, monopsonistic exploitation represents the gap between the value of a worker's marginal product and the worker's wage, and it...

Die Autorin behandelt die allokativen Wirkungen des Kündigungsschutzes und der Regelungen temporärer Arbeitsverträge auf die Höhe und Dauer der Arbeitslosigkeit und den Jobturnover. Elke Jahn zeigt, daß sich die vor allem vom kontinentalen Arbeitsrecht vertretene These, der...