For decades, economists gave short shrift to the idea of monopsony — a power employers can have to suppress wages. Now a wave ...

Talk to almost anyone about the forces at work behind Western politics’ contemporary upheaval, and it will not take long for your conversation to reach the discontents of the working class. In the ...

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The U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee’s recent finding that a National Collegiate Athletic Association’s (NCAA) rule limiting the years of eligibility for college athletes who ...

The true culprit behind America’s affordability issue “is that employers have had too much power and too little motivation to ...

An emerging labor economics literature examines the consequences of firms exercising market power in local labor markets. The extent of this market power is likely to vary across local labor markets.

The United States Department of Defense pur­chases more goods, services, and software than all federal agencies combined and is often the tar­get of scrutiny and reform. But the majority of what the ...