Monopsony Power in Migrant Labor Markets: Evidence from the United Arab Emirates
Monopsony Power in Migrant Labor Markets: Evidence from the United Arab Emirates, Naidu, S., Nyarko, Y., & Wang, S. Y. (2016, December). Journal of Political Economy, 124(6), 1735-1792.
By exploiting a reform in the UAE that relaxed restrictions on employer transitions, we provide new estimates of the monopsony power of firms over migrant workers.