Monopsony Power in Higher Education: A Tale of Two Tracks

Austan Goolsbee & Chad Syverson
Published Date
Copyright 2023
DOI 10.1086/726720
CONFERENCE HELD May 20-21, 2021
Book: Wage Dynamics in the 21st Century
Book organizers: Erik Hurst & Lisa B. Kahn
PUBLISHER: Journal of Labor Economics, Volume 41, Number S1

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Monopsony Power in Higher Education: A Tale of Two Tracks
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This paper tests for and measures monopsony power in the U.S. higher education labor market. It does so by directly...

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