Market-Power

Council of Economic Advisers: Market Power Suppresses Wages, Contributes to $1+ Trillion in Lost Worker Income

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The Obama administration’s Council of Economic Advisers publishes landmark research ‘Labor Market Monopsony: Trends, Consequences, and Policy Responses’ documenting how employer market power (monopsony) and product market concentration (monopoly) systematically suppress American …

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