Market power and income disparities: How can firms influence the gap between capital and labour earnings

Chrysovalantis Amountzias

doi:10.1111/boer.12450

Market power and income disparities: How can firms influence the gap between capital and labour earnings

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This paper investigates the effects of market power on income disparities when firm-specific parameters are considered to test how they shape the gap between capital and labour earnings through their pricing decisions. The dataset consists of 2,895 UK manufacturing and services firms over 2010-2019. The results provide the following insights: (a) there is a strong positive association between market power and income disparities across the market, (b) liquidity constraints exert a positive effect on the asset-based disparities ratio, but a negative effect on the profit-based ratio. The robustness of the results is also checked when market-specific characteristics are included in the process.

Original language	English
Article number	12450
Pages (from-to)	1-54
Number of pages	54
Journal	Bulletin of Economic Research
Volume	76
Issue number	3
Early online date	8 Jul 2024
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/boer.12450
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 8 Jul 2024

Keywords

Income disparities
Markup ratio
Liquidity constraints
Firms
Panel data

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