, and a pure monopsony (one employer) reduces wages by 13 percent. A simulation shows that wages under pure monopsony could … be 47 percent lower, suggesting that employers do not use the extent of their monopsony power. Enforcing wage regulations …

Using a semi-structural approach based on a dynamic monopsony model, we examine to what extent workers performing … different job tasks are exposed to different degrees of monopsony power, and whether these differences in monopsony power have … degree of monopsony power than workers performing routine or non-routine manual tasks. Job-specific human capital and non …