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Adam Smith alleged that secret employer collusion to reduce labor earnings is common. This paper examines an important case of such behavior: no-poach agreements through which technology companies agreed not to compete for each other's workers. Exploiting the plausibly random timing of a US...
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used by the optimal growth problem. Finally, the paper shows that the negative welfare effect of monopsony is larger when …
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Although the sectors and fraction of workers covered are small given the low rates of formality and urbanization in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), as the number of covered workers grows wage regulation will become increasingly significant. We find that higher minimum wage values are associated with...
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This paper investigates the degree of monoposony power of German employers in different industries, using a semi-structural approach based on a dynamic model of monopsonistic competition. The empirical analysis is based on a linked employer-employee data set which allows us to control for...
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This paper investigates the degree of monopsony power of employers in different industries against the background of a …
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Economists increasingly refer to monopsony power to reconcile the absence of negativeemployment effects of minimum … comprehensive test of monop-sony theory by using labor market concentration as a proxy for monopsony power. Labormarket …, theresults lend empirical support to the monopsony argument, implying that conventionalminimum wage effects on employment conceal …
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Economists increasingly refer to monopsony power to reconcile the absence of negative employment effects of minimum … wages with theory. However, systematic evidence for the monopsony argument is scarce. In this paper, I perform a … comprehensive test of monopsony theory by using labor market concentration as a proxy for monopsony power. Labor market …
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employment in the United States. Whenever the minimum wage has positive or no effects on employment, they appeal to monopsony … States under concentrated labor markets and low-mobility jobs (two variables that measure monopsony), identify heterogeneous … effects among different scenarios derived from the monopsony model, and provide a plausible explanation of the mixed results …
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Workers acquire skills through formal schooling, through training provided by governments, and through training provided by firms. This chapter reviews, synthesizes, and augments the literature on the last of these, which has languished in recent years despite the sizable contribution of firm...
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the own-ers to the workers, monopsony power is still widespread, especially in some sectors and regions. The introduction … of a minimum wage would be beneficial to workers and the economy as it reduces the monopsony power of highly productive …
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