Monopsony in the labor market: Profit vs. Wage maximization

This paper compares the efficiency of profit- and wage-maximizing (PM and WM) monopsony in the labor market. We show that, both locally and globally, a PM monopsony may well be dominated by its WM twin, where the local and global dominance are defined with respect to a single (inverse) labor supply...

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Main Authors: Šuvaković Đorđe, Olgin, Radosavljević Goran
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Faculty of Economics, Belgrade 2007-01-01
Series:Ekonomski Anali
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Online Access:http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0013-3264/2007/0013-32640773007S.pdf