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Title Inequality and the labor market : the case for greater competition / edited by Sharon Block and Benjamin H. Harris
Published Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, [2021]
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Description 1 online resource (xx, 241 pages) : illustrations
Contents Fostering More-Competitive Labor Markets / Joseph E. Stiglitz -- The Legal Case for Reform / Sharon Block and Benjamin Elga -- Labor Market Competition: Framing the Issues / Jared Bernstein and Benjamin H. Harris -- Fighting Monopsony: A Lack of Competition that Harms Workers / Ioana Elena Marinescu -- Fair Competition in Labor Markets Requires a Policymaker's Thumb on the Workers' Side of the Scale / Josh Bivens and Heidi Shierholz -- How Antitrust Law Can Help--Instead of Hurt--Workers / Sandeep Vaheesan and Matthew Buck -- Protecting Competition on Behalf of the People: The Role of State Attorneys General in Challenging Noncompetes and Other Restraints on Employee Mobility / Lisa Madigan and Jane Flanagan -- Are Noncompetes Holding Down Wages? / Evan Stark -- Fostering More-Competitive Labor Markets: through Transparent Wages / Benjamin H. Harris -- Having Their Cake and Eating It Too: Antitrust Laws and the Fissured Workplace / David Seligman --Forced Arbitration: A Losing Proposition for Workers / Terri Gerstein -- Federal Evidence-Based Competition Policy / Kate Tromble and Gregory Nantz -- Addressing Labor Market Competition at the State Level / Jed Herrmann and Gregory Nantz
Summary For decades, falling competition in the U.S. labor market has weakened wage growth and diminished job quality. While sluggish productivity growth, rising globalization, and declining union representation are traditionally cited as factors for this historic imbalance in economic power, diminished labor market competition has had an increasingly detrimental impact on American workers. [This book] frames the legal and economic consequences of this imbalance and presents a series of urgently needed reforms for both labor and antitrust laws to improve outcomes for American workers. These include higher wages, safer workplaces, increased ability to report labor violations, greater mobility, more opportunities for workers to build power, and overall better labor protections -- publisher's description
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 06, 2021)
Subject Labor market -- United States
Income distribution -- United States
Labor laws and legislation -- United States.
Income distribution
Labor laws and legislation
Labor market
United States
Form Electronic book
Author Block, Sharon
Harris, Benjamin H
ISBN 9780815738817
0815738811