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Antitrust Chronicle® – Labor Markets

Winter 2020, Volume 1, Number 2

Dear Readers, This edition of the Antitrust Chronicle® looks at the interaction between antitrust rules and labor markets. Competition and labor rules are not obvious bedfellows. Labor regulation concerns, in its essence, collective bargaining with a view to enhance workers’ economic outcomes. By contrast, competition rules encourage rivalry with a view to enhancing consumer welfare […]

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