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Monopsony employer
A labour market structure in which there is a single powerful buyer of a particular type of labour. For example, the main buyer of the labour of doctors and nurses is the NHS. In the case of the labour market, a monopsony employer will tend to pay lower wages and employ fewer people (than in a highly competitive labour market.
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