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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

This paper brings together the modern literatures on monopsony power and labor unions by empirically examining the …

, 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 …

unemployment rate. In line with theory, we find that firms possess more monopsony power during economic downturns, which shows to …This paper investigates the behaviour of employers' monopsony power and workers' wages over the business cycle. Using … workers' entry wages are of similar magnitude as those predicted under monopsonistic wage setting, suggesting that monopsony …

unemployment rate. In line with theory, we find that firms possess more monopsony power during economic downturns, which shows to …This paper investigates the behaviour of employers' monopsony power and workers' wages over the business cycle. Using … workers' entry wages are of similar magnitude as those predicted under monopsonistic wage setting, suggesting that monopsony …