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Labor Market Power and the Effects of Fiscal Policy
Autor(in)

Bredemeier, Christian

Jansen, Babette

Winkler, Roland

Erschienen
18. Oktober 2023
Nummer des Discussion-Papers

2023-015

Schlagwort(e)

fiscal policy

income inequality

labor-market monopsony

Zusammenfsg.

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