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Who Benefits from Unemployment?

In: The Economics of Imperfect Competition and Employment

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  • Joaquim Silvestre

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The question addressed here is not very different from the one in chapters 25 and 26 of The Economics of Imperfect Competition (1933). There, Joan Robinson defines labor as being ‘exploited’ when the wage is less than labor’s marginal physical product valued at the price at which it is being sold: this occurs because firms either have monopoly power in the output market or monopsony power in the labor market. She then discusses the conditions under which the removal of such market imperfections is beneficial to the workers. One of her conclusions is that the existence of economywide imperfections cannot benefit the workers relative to the competitive outcome, since ‘their loss as consumers would more than offset their gain as wage earners’ (p.288).

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  • Joaquim Silvestre, 1989. "Who Benefits from Unemployment?," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: George R. Feiwel (ed.), The Economics of Imperfect Competition and Employment, chapter 14, pages 462-481, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-08630-6_14
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-08630-6_14
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    1. Benassy, Jean-Pascal, 1993. "Nonclearing Markets: Microeconomic Concepts and Macroeconomic Applications," Journal of Economic Literature, American Economic Association, vol. 31(2), pages 732-761, June.

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