Microeconomics › Section N · Labor markets and income › Topic N.4
Bilateral monopoly
What happens when the one-hospital town's nurses organise? A monopsony meets a union - single buyer against single seller - and the neat diagrams of the last two topics dissolve into something economics can bound but not pin down: a bargaining problem, where patience and outside options pick the wage.
In this topic
- When both sides hold power
- Employment: never above competitive
- What is not: the wage range
- The bargaining toolkit returns
- Worked example: bounding the outcome
- Worked example: the hospital and the nurses
- What tips the balance
- Two powers, one moderate result
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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