Monopsony: Wages, Wage Bargaining and Job Requirements
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monopsony; wages; bargaining; upskilling;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J12 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure
- J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
- J13 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
- J22 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Time Allocation and Labor Supply
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-COM-2025-01-13 (Industrial Competition)
- NEP-HRM-2025-01-13 (Human Capital and Human Resource Management)
- NEP-LMA-2025-01-13 (Labor Markets - Supply, Demand, and Wages)
- NEP-REG-2025-01-13 (Regulation)
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