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American Economic Review Vol. 112 No. 4 2022

Who Set Your Wage?

David Card

UC Berkeley (email: )

Abstract

I discuss the recent literature that has led to new interest in the idea of monopsonistic wage setting. Building on advances in search theory and in models of differentiated products, researchers have used a number of different strategies to identify the elasticity of firm-specific labor supply. A growing consensus is that firms have some wage-setting power, though many questions remain about the sources of that power.

DOI
10.1257/aer.112.4.1075
Volume
112
Issue
4
Pages
1075-1090
Language
en
Sources
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