Firm market power and the earnings distribution

Labour Economics

Volumn 35, Issue , 2015, Pages 123-134

  Webber, Douglas A ^a,b  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IZA ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Earnings inequality; Monopsony; Worker mobility

Indexed keywords

EID: 84931260564     PISSN: 09275371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2015.05.003     Document Type: Article

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