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Policy complementarities to curb market power and raise real wages

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  • Eckardt, Marcel Steffen
  • Neugart, Michael

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Recent evidence suggests that anti-competitive behavior of firms negatively affects workers’ real wages. Typically, policy actions relate to antitrust regulation and rarely to measures that curb employers’ monopsony power. We show that policymakers who want to raise workers’ real wages should address both types of market power simultaneously to gain from a policy complementarity.

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  • Eckardt, Marcel Steffen & Neugart, Michael, 2022. "Policy complementarities to curb market power and raise real wages," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 212(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:ecolet:v:212:y:2022:i:c:s0165176522000374
    DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2022.110336
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    Keywords

    Policy complementarity; Market power; Monopolistic competition; Monopsony power; Antitrust policy;
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    JEL classification:

    • D21 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Firm Behavior: Theory
    • D43 - Microeconomics - - Market Structure, Pricing, and Design - - - Oligopoly and Other Forms of Market Imperfection
    • J42 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Particular Labor Markets - - - Monopsony; Segmented Labor Markets

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