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Monopsony in the Labor Market

New Empirical Results and New Public Policies

Orley Ashenfelter, David Card, Henry Farber and Michael R. Ransom
Journal of Human Resources, April 2022, 57 (S) S1-S10; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.monopsony.special-issue-2022-introduction
Orley Ashenfelter
Orley Ashenfelter and Henry Farber are at Princeton University.
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