It is possible, in principle, that the price-quantity pair generated by a model of imperfect competition may satisfy the conditions (voluntary trading and absence of frictions) for a fixprice equilibrium. It is shown that imperfect competitors will typically satisfy voluntary trading provided...

This paper considers a labour market model of monopsonistic competition with taste-based discrimination against minority workers to study the effect of equal pay legislation on labour market inequality. When the taste for discrimination is small or competition is weak, the policy removes job...