TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Barth, Erling
AU  - Dale-Olsen, Harald
        TI  - Monopsonistic Discrimination, Worker Turnover, and the Gender Wage Gap
        PY  - 2009/Jan/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 3930
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp3930
        AB  - Motivated by models of worker flows, we argue in this paper that monopsonistic discrimination may be a substantial factor behind the overall gender wage gap. On matched employer-employee data from Norway, we estimate establishment-specific wage premiums separately for men and women, conditioning on fixed individual effects. Regressions of worker turnover on the wage premium identify less wage elastic labour supply facing each establishment of women than that of men. Workforce gender composition is strongly related to employers' wage policies. The results suggest that 70-90 percent of the gender wage gap for low-educated workers may be attributed to differences in labour market frictions between men and women, while the similar figures for high-educated workers ranges from 20 to 70 percent.
        KW  - monopsony
KW  - gender wage gap
        ER  -