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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 markets from the real-world perspective that employers have significant market (or monopsony) power over their workers. Arguing that this power derives from frictions in the labor market that make it time-consuming and costly for workers to change jobs, Manning re-examines much of labor economics based on this alternative and equally plausible assumption.
The book addresses the theoretical implications of monopsony and presents a wealth of empirical evidence. Our understanding of the distribution of wages, unemployment, and human capital can all be improved by recognizing that employers have some monopsony power over their workers. Also considered are policy issues including the minimum wage, equal pay legislation, and caps on working hours. In a monopsonistic labor market, concludes Manning, the "free" market can no longer be sustained as an ideal and labor economists need to be more open-minded in their evaluation of labor market policies. Monopsony in Motion will represent for some a new fundamental text in the advanced study of labor economics, and for others, an invaluable alternative perspective that henceforth must be taken into account in any serious consideration of the subject.
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Monopsony in Motion: Imperfect Competition in Labor Markets
2013, Princeton University Press
in English
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Monopsony in Motion: Imperfect Competition in Labor Markets
2013, Princeton University Press
in English
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Monopsony in Motion: Imperfect Competition in Labor Markets
January 10, 2005, Princeton University Press
Paperback
in English
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0691123284 9780691123288
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Monopsony in motion: imperfect competition in labor markets
2004, Princeton University Press
in English
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Monopsony in Motion: Imperfect Competition in Labor Markets
2003, Princeton University Press
Hardcover
in English
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Monopsony in motion: imperfect competition in labor markets
2003, Princeton University Press
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