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Measuring links between labor monopsony and the gender pay gap in Brazil

Vick, Brandon - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 7 (2017) 10, pp. 1-28

spell data for a single year, and disaggregation by region. I extend the model through decomposition methods to help clarify …

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The wage-setting power of firms : rent-sharing and monopsony in South Africa

Bassier, Ihsaan - 2019

Using administrative tax records from South Africa for the period 2011-14, I find that firm wage premia explain 25 per cent of the total wage variance, 60 per cent of the gender wage gap, and 40 per cent of the gap between workers in the middle and the bottom of the income distribution. Next, I...

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Monopsony power and labor income inequality in Mexico

Cazzuffi, Chiara; Pereira-López, Mariana; Rosales, Irving - 2023

We examine the impact of changes in local labor market concentration on two components of income inequality in Mexico …: local wage shares and labor income inequality. Combining data from the Economic Census and the Population and Housing … Censuses, we analyze the mechanisms that drive the relationship between concentration and labor income inequality by …

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Labour market power and between-firm wage (in)equality

Mertens, Matthias - 2021 - This draft: May 18, 2021

-2016). In past decades, labour market power increasingly moderated rising between-firm wage inequality. This is becausehigh …

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Labour market power and between-firm wage (in)equality

Mertens, Matthias - 2021 - This draft: May 18, 2021

-2016). In past decades, labour market power increasingly moderated rising between-firm wage inequality. This is becausehigh …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012514890

Labour market power and between-firm wage (in)equality

Mertens, Matthias - 2020

marginal revenue products of labour (MRPL), increasingly moderated rising between-firm wage inequality. This is because small …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012261228

Labour market power and between-firm wage (in)equality

Mertens, Matthias - 2020

marginal revenue products of labour (MRPL), increasingly moderated rising between-firm wage inequality. This is because small …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012261403

Dynamic monopsony : evidence from a French establishment panel

Fakhfakh, Fathi (contributor); FitzRoy, Felix R. (contributor) - 2005

This paper uses a panel of about 6000 French establishments to test some implications of the modern theory of dynamic monopsony or upward sloping labour supply curves for average firm wages. Panel estimates provide strong evidence of a much larger long run employer size - wage effect (ESWE) than...

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Elasticity of supply to the firm and the business cycle

Depew, Briggs; Sorensen, Todd - 2011

A body of recent empirical work has found strong evidence that the labor elasticity of supply to the firm is finite, implying that firms may have wage setting power. However, these studies capture only snapshots of the parameter. We study this parameter over a period that provides substantial...

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Monopsony competition and the minimum wage : evidence from Germany ; conference paper

Bachmann, Ronald; Frings, Hanna - 2014 - Preliminary

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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