Monopsony Power, Competition Law, and Women's Informal Labour Markets in Latin America Journal of European Competition Law & Practice 2025, fortcoming, 15.03.2025 (
Labour markets have become a blind spot for conventional competition law due to its self-imposed restraints under a single
economic approach that has limited its scope of application and interpretation; this is the case in the Global North and through
legal transplants in Latin America.
Monopsony power in Latin American labour markets may contribute to the rise of informal labour disproportionally affecting
women, which deserves to be analysed as a theory of harm pursuant to competition law.
A competition law that recognises other perspectives, such as decent work and feminist approaches, could establish more
suitable principles to address the particular realities and concerns of Latin American contexts.
