Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/36902 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 4915
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This brief survey contains a review of several new empirical papers that attempt to measure the extent of monopsony in labor markets. As noted originally by Joan Robinson, monopsonistic exploitation represents the gap between the value of a worker's marginal product and the worker's wage, and it represents both a distortion in the allocation of resources and an income transfer away from workers. The evidence surveyed from a fairly broad range of labor markets suggests that monopsony may be far more pervasive than is sometimes suggested.
Subjects: 
Monopsony
imperfect labor markets
JEL: 
J31
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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