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Monopsony Power, Income Taxation and Welfare

Hummel, Albert Jan - 2021

This paper studies the implications of monopsony power for optimal income taxation and welfare. Firms observe workers …’ abilities while the government does not and monopsony power determines what share of the labor market surplus is translated into … profits. Monopsony power increases the tax incidence that falls on firms. This makes labor income taxes less (more) effective …

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Employment and the minimum wage : a pluralist approach

Schütz, Bernhard - 2018

When discussing the employment effects of minimum wages, mainstream economic discussion as well as mainstream economics textbooks mainly center around two variations of the neoclassical model: the model of the competitive and the monopsonistic labor market. The current paper offers a different...

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Employment and the minimum wage : a pluralist approach

Schütz, Bernhard - 2018

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Monopsonistic competition, low-wage labour markets, and minimum wages : an empirical analysis

Bachmann, Ronald; Frings, Hanna - 2015

This paper investigates the degree of monopsony power of employers in different industries against the background of a …

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The statutory minimum wage in Germany and the labor demand elasticities of low-skilled workers : a regression discontinuity approach with establishment panel data

Kölling, Arnd - 2020 - This version: October 16th, 2020

This study examines the influence of the statutory minimum wage on labor demand elasticities regarding low-skilled workers. For this, a regression discontinuity analysis is conducted using company panel data from 2013 to 2018. In addition, a possible endogeneity of the remuneration for...

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A cross-country comparison of labor market frictions

Ridder, Geert; Berg, Gerard J. van den - 2002

separate analyses for the USA, the UK, Germany and the Netherlands. We quantify the monopsony power due to search frictions and …

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Monopsony power, offshoring, and a European minimum wage

Egger, Hartmut; Kreickemeier, Udo; Wrona, Jens - 2024

This paper sets up a two-country model of offshoring with monopolistically competitive product and monopsonistically competitive labour markets. In our model, an incentive for offshoring exists even between symmetric countries, because shifting part of the production abroad reduces local labour...

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Food Consumption, Paternalism and Economic Policy

Thunström, Linda - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2008

The thesis consists of a summary and four papers, concerned with food consumption, behavior associated with overconsumption of food and analysis of the economic policy reforms designed to improve health. <p> Paper [I] estimates a hedonic price model on breakfast cereal, crisp bread and potato...</p>

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The Optimal Graduated Minimum Wage and Social Welfare

Danziger, Eliav - 2018

This paper analyzes the effects of introducing a graduated minimum wage in a model with optimal income taxation in …

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The Optimal Graduated Minimum Wage and Social Welfare

Danziger, Eliav - 2018

This paper analyzes the effects of introducing a graduated minimum wage in a model with optimal in-come taxation in …

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