Monopsony

Multi-establishment firms account for around 60% of U.S. workers' primary employers, providing ample opportunity for workers to change their work location without changing their employer. Using U.S. matched employer-employee data, …

A related literature measures the extent of monopsony power within U.S. labor markets and chronicles …

Worker shortages are common in many industries. This paper examines the effect of government subsidies to address these shortages in the context of a reform that tied Medicaid payments to …

2022, 57 (2), 322–332. Matsudaira, Jordan D, “Monopsony in the low-wage labor market? Evidence from minimum …

Using linked employer-employee data from Brazil, we document a large gender pay gap due to women working at lower-paying employers with better nonpay attributes. To interpret these facts, we develop …

taste-based discrim- ination (Becker, 1971), and monopsony power (Robinson, 1933). The model features pay … taste-based discrimination (Becker, 1971), and monopsony power (Robinson, 1933). Third, we simulate a series … search frictions give rise to gender- specific monopsony power (Robinson, 1933) across firms, which results … function ψw g (·), which depends on gender- specific monopsony power. Compensating differentials shape equilibrium … (2023) for a comprehensive study of gender-specific monopsony power in the Brazilian textile sector. 33 Figure …

Emerging Scenario and the Need for Renewed Attention to the Agriculture Sector in the BIMSTEC Region In spite of its declining share in the GDP, agriculture continues to remain a …

government-controlled market-yards are characterised by the monopsony of a few licenced traders and the inability of …

In this article we revive, extend and improve the approach used in a series of influential papers written in the 2000s to estimate how changes in the supply of immigrant …

some of them are summarized in Tumen (2015). 2 monopsony power of firms at the local level in models that … the local area literature, and the focus on monopsony power of firms has limitations. In particular … groups. Third, and most importantly, the focus on monopsony effects or the role of minimum wage present immigration …

The dynamics of false solutions 12 Characteristics of false solutions 13 False solutions reinforce the power of agribusiness 13 False solutions are used to perpetuate and disseminate false narratives 15 …

gives Walmart its contracts with dairy farmers.13 monopsony power;i this market domination Yet Walmart claims … own production to undercut 2019 and 2021.19 i A monopsony is a market condition in which there is only one …

The extraordinary and surprising increase in the creation and ownership of employer businesses since 2020 has been concentrated among certain demographic groups. Figure 1 shows, relative to the fourth quarter …

Proposal for Protecting Low-Income Workers from Monopsony and Collusion.” The Hamilton Project, Brookings …

The costs to society are considered as ‘external costs’ by producers and consumers: yet society pays the bill in the form of a reduction of the overall level of welfare. …

land ownerships, subsidies through the CAP and monopsony in retail may distort the price signal to producers …

The strong co-movement between the changes in the aggregate number of suppliers (∆vt) and the aggregate rate of adoption (sN,t) shows that fluctuations in the aggregate number of suppliers are …

market concentration: Search complementarities and monopsony power. Journal of Monetary Economics 121, 62–90 …

Profit growth has been solid and broad-based in the non-mining sector and across both large and small businesses, even in the face of a slowing economy. [...] Given the nil …

of power over their consumers, or a level of monopsony power over their supply chain and workforce. ACTU … Sosinskiy D (2024), “Minimum Wage Effects and Monopsony Explanations,” University of California Davis … positive employment effects. The exercise of monopsony power by large employers in concentrated labour …