Researchers' interest in monopsony has increased in recent years. This article reviews the
accumulating evidence that employers have considerable monopsony power. It summarizes …

We test whether wage growth slows following employer consolidation by examining hospital
mergers. We find evidence of reduced wage growth in cases where both (i) the increase in …

When jobs offered by different employers are not perfect substitutes, employers gain wage-
setting power; the extent of this power can be captured by the elasticity of labor supply to the …

International migration offers individuals and their families the potential to experience
immediate and large gains in their incomes and offers a number of other positive benefits to …

Public employment programs may affect poverty both directly through the income they
provide and indirectly through general equilibrium effects. We estimate both effects …

We analyze how separations responded to arbitrary differences in own and peer wages at a
large US retailer. Regression-discontinuity estimates imply large causal effects of own …

This paper develops a method to estimate workers' outside employment opportunities. We
outline a matching model with two-sided heterogeneity, from which we derive a sufficient …

In this paper we combine household surveys, national accounts, income tax data and wealth
data in order to estimate income concentration in the Middle East for the period 1990–2016 …

Using data covering the universe of injury claims from the nation's largest worker's
compensation system (2001-2018), we explore the relationship between temperature and …

By exploiting a reform in the United Arab Emirates that relaxed restrictions on employer
transitions, we provide new estimates of the monopsony power of firms over migrant …