Mechanism: How Low Product Market Competition Lowers the Real Wage
When firms face limited competition in the market for their goods, they have the power to set higher prices, which in turn increases their profit margins. For any given nominal wage, this action of raising prices directly causes a decrease in the real wage paid to workers.
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