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This paper considers a labour market model of monopsonistic competition with taste-based discrimination against … minority workers to study the effect of equal pay legislation on labour market inequality. When the taste for discrimination is … for discrimination or stronger competition, equal pay legislation leads to more job segregation, and sometimes minority …
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conventional indicator of pay discrimination - the residual differential ascribable only to gender - is smaller in 1977 than in …
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Recent empirical contributions in labor economics suggest that individual firms face upward sloping labor supplies. We rationalize this by assuming that diosyncratic non-pecuniary conditions interact with money wages in workers' decisions to work for specific firms. Likewise, firms supply...
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Die Arbeit untersucht und vergleicht die Wirkung von Mindest- und Kombilöhnen (Lohnkostenzuschüsse und Transferzahlungen an Arbeitnehmer) in einem Arbeitsmarktmodell mit monopsonistischer Konkurrenz und freiem Marktzutritt für Firmen. Es wird die Wirkung beider Instrumente auf die Nutzen der...
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This paper studies how demographics affect aggregate labor market power, the urban wage premium and the spatial concentration of population, I develop a quantitative spatial model in which labor market competitiveness depends on the demographic composition of the local workforce, Using highly...
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This paper introduces endogenous workplace quality choice into an international trade model with a monopsonistically competitive labour market, in which firms compete for potential employees by offering them a combination of monetary and non-monetary benefits. To attract the workers required to...
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This paper studies how demographics affect aggregate labor market power, the urban wage premium and the spatial concentration of population. I develop a quantitative spatial model in which labor market competitiveness depends on the demographic composition of the local workforce. Using highly...
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Corn and wheat cash prices in Kansas are affected by a number of local supply-demand, market structure, transportation access and other factors. Kansas corn prices in 2008 were affected by form of business organization, local feedgrain production and livestock feed usage, elevator storage...
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