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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Monopsony"”.
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Monopsony and Measurement Error in the South African Labour Market
In this paper, I analyse the extent to which monopsony power is present in the South African labour market by estimating the wage elasticity of labour supply to the firm, following Manning's (2003) method. I also consider the extent to which the method of identifying jobto-job separations and the …
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High Hill Yak Cheese Production in Nepal: An Analysis of Privatization Policy Incorporating the Impacts of Market Failures for Agro-Industries in Developing Countries
… impacts of privatization stem from changes in monopsony behavior and institutional constraints that differ between the public and private sectors. The Dairy Development Corporation (DDC) of Nepal produces yak cheese. The DDC's mandate is to provide a "fair" price to consumers and producers. …
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Essays in Development and Labor Economics
… labor market — gender differences in employers’ monopsony power over their workers, and the possibility that the decision-makers who design workplaces do not prioritize women’s needs when doing so. The final chapter focuses on a different population, of the poorest Indian households, and studies …
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The impact of labor standards on restaurant business practices in Boston, MA
… that, following the theory of dynamic monopsony, wage variation and "high road" practices among restaurants in Boston, with middling labor standards, would fall somewhere between the Research Triangle, with no locally-enacted labor standards, and San Francisco, with the highest labor …
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The Location of Fed Cattle Slaughtering and Processing: An Application of Mixed Integer Programming
… million head, leading to patterns of regional monopsony. Other attention has focused on a potential decrease in fed cattle production in the southwest plains states due to decreased feedgrain production (as a result of possible declines in the availability of groundwater for crop irrigation).
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Elections And Asset Pricing: The Politically Sensitive Equity Of Us Military Contractors
… military contractors, capitalizing on the unique monopsony-oligopoly business environment of these firms. I employ a GARCH (1,1) model with cross-sectionally correlated moments to produce daily firm-election volatility measures. Volatility increases 11% for local, 27% for midterm, and 43% for …
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Essays in Macroeconomics
… study the price and wage-setting implications of monopsony models with nominal rigidities. I develop a New Keynesian model with wage posting and on-the-job search. I show how wage markdowns are related to the importance of hiring costs, and those are estimated to be an order of magnitude larger …
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Essays in the macroeconomics of production sale
… capturing fixed and quasi-fixed costs, a monopsony term, and an input-output multiplier. We find that both measured markups and returns to scale rose in the United States between 1970 and 2020, but their opposing effects offset one another, leaving the aggregate profit share roughly …
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Wage suppression of married women induced by geographic immobility
… and specialization in available jobs) or monopsony</p>
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NAVIGATING GENDERED SPACE: THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF LABOUR MARKETS IN PAKISTAN
… engage in industrial waged-work, operate in a monopsony. Capital exploits labour market monopsonies and deepens women’s precarious positions. Gender prohibitive forces of this society manifest in women’s scarcity in industrial settings. I explore forces and processes of inclusion and exclusion …
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Prospects for Liberian iron ores considering shifting patterns of trade in the world iron ore industry.
… discrimination is evidenced in the form both of monopsony power exercised by some buyers in the Pacific Basin over intra-regional (e.g., Australian) and extra-regional (e.g., Brazilian, Liberian) producers and monopoly power permitting modest rents to be collected by some producers in Africa, …
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Intellectual property and architecture : how architecture influences intellectual property lock-in
… is a wicked problem particularly pervasive under monopsony market structures, such as the Department of Defense (DoD). However, little research exists on the mechanisms of action that induce intellectual property lock-in. This work postulates the conjuncture of architecture and intellectual …
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Three essays in labor economics
… workers. In a second model, we assume a monopsony labor market. The analytical models allow us to solve explicit equations for outcomes in GE and to derive testable hypotheses. We compare the testable hypotheses from the two models and use them to guide our empirical work.
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Innovation pathways in technology intensive government organizations : insights from NASA
… implications for complex product innovation in a monopsony market.
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Active purchasing mechanisms of private healthcare services: experiences of public and private purchasers in Kenya
… such as: institutional regulatory authority; monopsony and bargaining authority; and some provider payment mechanisms such as capitation. Power in this study is defined as a relation between two parties whereby party A is said to have power over party B to the extent that A can get B to do …
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Essays On The Behavior Of Firms In The Indonesian Labor Market
The greatest productive asset for most people in the world is their own labor. Many poor people employ their labor in subsistence agriculture or in informal jobs. A direct route to lift these people out of poverty is to move them into formal sector jobs which provide higher wages and more benefits. …
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Essays in experimental economics on contract design
… implication of these findings is that standard monopsony models may overestimate efficiency losses from a reduction in volume of trade if production occurs under a contract.</p> <p>In the second chapter, I explore how the relational contract is impacted by the potential for the principal and …