of monopsony. We use an exogenous change in wages at Veterans Affairs hospitals as a natural experiment to investigate … responded to the VA wage change by changing their own wages … the extent of monopsony in the nurse labor market. In contrast to much of the prior literature, we estimate that labor …

of monopsony. We use an exogenous change in wages at Veterans Affairs hospitals as a natural experiment to investigate … responded to the VA wage change by changing their own wages … the extent of monopsony in the nurse labor market. In contrast to much of the prior literature, we estimate that labor …

affecting industry quality, prices, efficiency, wages and more. This research concerns the growth in hospital system … consolidation in local labor markets and its effect on registered nurse wages. We first use a nonparametric preprocessing data step … step enables an accounting of heterogeneous MSA-specific baseline wage growth, and yields a standardized measure of nurse …

affecting industry quality, prices, efficiency, wages and more. This research concerns the growth in hospital system … consolidation in local labor markets and its effect on registered nurse wages. We first use a nonparametric preprocessing data step … step enables an accounting of heterogeneous MSA-specific baseline wage growth and yields a standardized measure of nurse …

This paper provides direct evidence on the extent of monopsony power in the low-wage labor market by estimating the … labor supply curve, growing firms did not have to raise their wages in order to hire more workers. The finding of negligible … monopsony power in the market for nursing assistants – a result at odds with some recent other findings – adds interesting …

We investigate the impact of labour market concentration on two dimensions of job quality, namely wages and job … and local product market concentration, we show that the elasticities of wages with respect to labour market concentration … are strikingly similar across countries: increasing labour market concentration by 10% reduces wages by 0.19% in Germany …

We investigate the impact of labor market concentration on stayers' wages, where stayers are defined as individuals who … of stayers' wages to labor market concentration ranges between -0.0185 and -0.0230, depending on the instrument we use … and three fourth of the elasticity we estimate for new hires. Given the strong wage rigidities characterizing the French …

from confounded product-market concentration. Analysis extends beyond wages to rates of employment-based health insurance …