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Micro Ch 14
Stack based on Chapter 14 of Principles of Microeconomics 3e
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| affirmative action | active efforts by government or businesses that give special rights to minorities in hiring, promotion, or access to education to make up for past discrimination |
| bilateral monopoly | a labor market with a monopsony on the demand side and a union on the supply side |
| collective bargaining | negotiations between unions and a firm or firms |
| discrimination | actions based on the belief that members of a certain group or groups are in some way inferior solely because of a factor such as race, gender, or religion |
| first rule of labor markets | an employer will never pay a worker more than the value of the worker's marginal productivity to the firm |
| monopsony | a labor market where there is only one employer |
| perfectly competitive labor market | a labor market where neither suppliers of labor nor demanders of labor have any market power; thus, an employer can hire all the workers they would like at the going market wage |