Monopsony in Motion : : Imperfect Competition in Labor Markets /

Monopsony in Motion : : Imperfect Competition in Labor Markets / / Alan Manning.

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What happens if an employer cuts wages by one cent? Much of labor economics is built on the assumption that all the workers will quit immediately. Here, Alan Manning mounts a systematic challenge to the standard model of perfect competition. Monopsony in Motion stands apart by analyzing labor market...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Manning, Alan,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2013]
©2003
Year of Publication:2013
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (416 p.) :; 28 line illus. 50 tables.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Part One. BASICS
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Simple Models of Monopsony and Oligopsony
  • 3. Efficiency in Oligopsonistic Labor Markets
  • 4. The Elasticity of the Labor Supply Curve to an Individual Firm
  • PART TWO. THE STRUCTURE OF WAGES
  • 5. The Wage Policies of Employers
  • 6. Earnings and the Life Cycle
  • 7. Gender Discrimination in Labor Markets
  • 8. Employers and Wages
  • PART THREE. LABOR DEMAND AND SUPPLY
  • 9. Unemployment, Inactivity, and Labor Supply
  • 10. Vacancies and the Demand for Labor
  • 11. Human Capital and Training
  • PART FOUR. WAGE-SETTING INSTITUTIONS AND CONCLUSIONS
  • 12. The Minimum Wage and Trade Unions
  • 13. Monopsony and the Big Picture
  • Data Sets Appendix
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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