Seniority and Monopsony in the Academic Labor Market.

S-Tier
Journal: American Economic Review
Year: 1993
Volume: 83
Issue: 1
Pages: 221-33

Score contribution per author:

8.043 = (α=2.01 / 1 authors) × 4.0x S-tier

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Abstract

Workers with high seniority usually have higher wages than workers with low seniority and the same total labor-marke t experience. In contrast, the results of this paper indicate that higher seniority is associated with lower salaries for university professors. The author documents this finding for national surveys a nd individual institutions and explains it as due to monopsonistic discrimination by employers. Copyright 1993 by American Economic Association.

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RePEc Handle
repec:aea:aecrev:v:83:y:1993:i:1:p:221-33
Journal Field
General
Author Count
1
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2026-01-29