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Washington, D.C. — The debate around labor market monopsony has heated up considerably in recent years. While labor monopsony was previously considered a hypothetical thought experiment, recent ...

Talk to almost anyone about the forces at work behind Western politics’ contemporary upheaval, and it will not take long for your conversation to reach the discontents of the working class. In the ...

Amazon is raising the minimum wage for all its U.S. workers to $15 per hour, a decision that follows backlash from labor rights groups over the company’s pay and working conditions. As giant firms ...

An emerging labor economics literature examines the consequences of firms exercising market power in local labor markets. The extent of this market power is likely to vary across local labor markets.

I vaguely recall the word “monopsony” from an introductory economics course, but to be honest, I could not remember what it means. The term monopsony is defined as, “a market condition where one or a ...

The U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee’s recent finding that a National Collegiate Athletic Association’s (NCAA) rule limiting the years of eligibility for college athletes who ...

f there’s only one employer in town, the employee’s bargaining power is relatively low. That’s the empirical claim behind the idea that monopsony -- a monopoly of demand for employees by a single ...

For the first time in decades, a dominant firm is facing a pending antitrust challenge specifically aimed at its unlawful power over labor markets. Earlier this month, the Service Employees ...

One of the more depressing pieces of economic analysis offered to us recently is that by Jason Furman and Alan Kreuger on the issue of monopsony in employment markets in the United States. One is ...