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While it is generally agreed that minimum wage price floors reduce employment, [8] economic literature has yet to form a consensus regarding the effects in the presence of monopsony power. [5] Some studies have shown that if monopsony power is present within a labour market the effect is reversed and a minimum wage could increase employment. [9]
This blames monopoly in the product market, monopsony in the labour market and cartellization as the main causes for exploitation of workers. In his discussion of neoclassical exploitation, Nicholas Vrousalis argues that monopoly and monopsony are unnecessary to exploitation, as exploitation is compatible with perfectly competitive markets. [23]
Additionally, it is extraordinarily difficult to separate the effects of minimum wage from all the other variables that affect employment. [34] Studies have found that minimum wages have the following positive effects: Improves functioning of the low-wage labor market which may be characterized by employer-side market power (monopsony). [106] [107]
Different economists have different views about what events are the sources of market failure. Mainstream economic analysis widely accepts that a market failure (relative to Pareto efficiency) can occur for three main reasons: if the market is "monopolised" or a small group of businesses hold significant market power, if production of the good or service results in an externality (external ...
Monopsony, when there is only a single buyer in a market. Discussion of monopsony power in the labor literature largely focused on the pure monopsony model in which a single firm comprised the entirety of demand for labor in a market (e.g., company town). [12]
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A monopoly may also have monopsony control of a sector of a market. A monopsony is a market situation in which there is only one buyer. Likewise, a monopoly should be distinguished from a cartel (a form of oligopoly), in which several providers act together to coordinate services, prices or sale of goods.
A monopsony is a situation in which a single buyer dominates the market. In this situation, a firm sets the market price it will pay for the factor rather than taking it as market-determined, and the amount of the factor to purchase is chosen at the same time subject to the constraint that the price-and-quantity combination is a point on the ...