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U.S. Employers Are Playing Monopsony
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U.S. Employers Are Playing Monopsony

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Oct 29, 2018
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Labor economists have a new explanation for stagnant real wage growth: rising corporate “monopsony” power. When a given market has many service providers but only one buyer (think of a small-town Walmart that employs virtually the entire population), workers have no bargaining power—which could explain why wage growth has been nonexistent even as firms …

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