- A-Z
- Jena Economics Rese...
- Volume 17
- Labor Market Power ...
- Autor(in)
- Erschienen
- 18. Oktober 2023
- Nummer des Discussion-Papers
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2023-015
- Schlagwort(e)
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fiscal policy
income inequality
labor-market monopsony
- Zusammenfsg.
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We propose a new fiscal transmission channel based on countercyclical monopsony power in the labor market. We develop a Two-Agent New Keynesian model incorporating a time-varying degree of monopsony power, with workers valuing various job aspects and firms having wage-setting power, inversely related to the elasticity of labor supply to individual firms. As government spending increases, labor supply to individual firms becomes more elastic, creating more competition, larger fiscal multipliers, and stronger distributional consequences. We examine this channel's interactions with other fiscal transmission channels. Finally, we confirm empirically the model's prediction of reduced employer market power following government spending expansions.
- article pub. typess JER
- Research article
- article languages JER
- Englisch
- JEL-Classification for JER
- E62 - Fiscal Policy ; J42 - Monopsony; Segmented Labor Markets ; E25 - Aggregate Factor Income Distribution ; E32 - Business Fluctuations; Cycles