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- 2. 8.2 Wage Determination Collective bargaining is bargaining between firms and unions. Common forces at work in
- 3. How much bargaining power a worker has depends on two factors. How costly it would be
- 4. Economists call the theories that link the productivity or the efficiency of workers to the wage
- 5. Henry Ford and Efficiency Wages In 1914, Henry Ford decided his company would pay every qualified
- 6. Wages, prices and unemployment The aggregate nominal wage, W, depends on three factors: The expected price
- 7. Both workers and firms care about real wages (W/P), not nominal wages (W). Workers do not
- 8. Also affecting the aggregate wage is the unemployment rate, u. If we think of wages as
- 9. The third variable, z, is a catchall variable that stands for all the factors that affect
- 10. 8.3 Price Determination Y = output N = employment A = labour productivity, or output per
- 11. 8.3 Price Determination (Continued) Firms set their price according to: The term u is the markup
- 12. 8.4 The Natural Rate of Unemployment In this section, we will look at the implications of
- 13. Since Pe equals P, then: We can divide both sides by the price level: This relation
- 14. The natural rate of unemployment is the unemployment rate such that the real wage chosen in
- 15. The price-determination equation is: If we divide both sides by W, we get: To state this
- 16. The price-setting relation in Equation (8.6) is drawn as the horizontal line PS (for price setting)
- 17. Eliminating W/P from the wage-setting and the price-setting relations, we can obtain the equilibrium unemployment rate,
- 18. The positions of the wage-setting and price-setting curves, and thus the equilibrium unemployment rate, depend on
- 19. Equilibrium real wages and unemployment Figure 8.11 Unemployment benefits and the natural rate of unemployment An
- 20. Equilibrium real wages and unemployment Figure 8.12 Mark-ups and the natural rate of unemployment An increase
- 21. Because the equilibrium rate of unemployment reflects the structure of the economy, a better name for
- 22. Associated with the natural rate of unemployment is a natural level of employment. Employment in terms
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