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Pills or puts?
Shuo Xia
Financial Times, February 2, 2024
When employers face a trade-off between growing large and paying low wages — that is, when they have monopsony power — some productive employers will decide to acquire fewer customers, forgo sales, and remain small.
We analyze the evolution of the wage and employment structure in East Germany over the past two decades and compare it to West Germany.