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100 1 _aHirsch, Boris.
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aMonopsonistic Labour Markets and the Gender Pay Gap
_h[recurso electrónico] :
_bTheory and Empirical Evidence /
_cby Boris Hirsch.
264 1 _aBerlin, Heidelberg :
_bSpringer Berlin Heidelberg :
_bImprint: Springer,
_c2010.
300 _aXXIII, 280p. 37 illus.
_bonline resource.
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
347 _atext file
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490 1 _aLecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems,
_x0075-8442 ;
_v639
505 0 _aSpatial Monopsony -- Simple Static Monopsony -- Short-Run Spatial Monopsony -- Long-Run Spatial Monopsony -- Spatial Monopsony and the Gender Pay Gap -- Spatial Monopsony and Regional Differences in the Gender Pay Gap -- Dynamic Monopsony -- Simple Dynamic Monopsony -- A General Equilibrium Model of Dynamic Monopsony -- Dynamic Monopsony and the Gender Pay Gap -- Concluding Remarks.
520 _aThis book investigates models of spatial and dynamic monopsony and their application to the persistent empirical regularity of the gender pay gap. Theoretically, the main conclusion is that employers possess more monopsony power over their female employees if women are less driven by pecuniary considerations in their choice of employers than men. Employers may exploit this to increase their profits at the detriment of women’s wages. Empirically, it is indeed found that women’s labour supply to the firm is less wage-elastic than men’s and that at least a third of the gender pay gap in the data investigated may result from employers engaging in monopsonistic discrimination. Therefore, a monopsonistic approach to gender discrimination in the labour market clearly contributes to the economic understanding of the gender pay gap. It not only provides an intuitively appealing explanation of the gap from standard economic reasoning, but it is also corroborated by empirical observation.
650 0 _aEconomics.
650 0 _aEconomic policy.
650 0 _aLabor economics.
650 0 _aMicroeconomics.
650 1 4 _aEconomics/Management Science.
650 2 4 _aLabor Economics.
650 2 4 _aSociology, general.
650 2 4 _aMicroeconomics.
650 2 4 _aEconomic Policy.
710 2 _aSpringerLink (Online service)
773 0 _tSpringer eBooks
776 0 8 _iPrinted edition:
_z9783642104084
830 0 _aLecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems,
_x0075-8442 ;
_v639
856 4 0 _zLibro electrónico
_uhttp://148.231.10.114:2048/login?url=http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-642-10409-1
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