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  2. Labour economics - Wikipedia

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    When labour supply exceeds demand, salary faces downward pressure due to an employer's ability to pick from a labour pool that exceeds the jobs pool. However, if the demand for labour is larger than the supply, salary increases, as employee have more bargaining power while employers have to compete for scarce labour. [5]

  3. The Theory of Wages - Wikipedia

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    Part I of the book takes as its starting point a reformulation of the marginal productivity theory of wages as determined by supply and demand in full competitive equilibrium of a free market economy. Part II considers regulated labour markets resulting from labour disputes, trade unions and government action. The 2nd edition (1963) includes a ...

  4. Backward bending supply curve of labour - Wikipedia

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    The labour supply curve shows how changes in real wage rates might affect the number of hours worked by employees.. In economics, a backward-bending supply curve of labour, or backward-bending labour supply curve, is a graphical device showing a situation in which as real (inflation-corrected) wages increase beyond a certain level, people will substitute time previously devoted for paid work ...

  5. Supply and demand - Wikipedia

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    On the other hand, [10] the money supply curve is a horizontal line if the central bank is targeting a fixed interest rate and ignoring the value of the money supply; in this case the money supply curve is perfectly elastic. The demand for money intersects with the money supply to determine the interest rate.

  6. Why Supply and Demand Is Important to You and the Economy - AOL

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    There’s the Law 0f Supply and the Law of Demand. In an unimpeded market, supply and demand determine the value of a product or service. Supply represents the amount of something that producers ...

  7. The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money

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    The state of the economy, according to Keynes, is determined by four parameters: the money supply, the demand functions for consumption (or equivalently for saving) and for liquidity, and the schedule of the marginal efficiency of capital determined by 'the existing quantity of equipment' and 'the state of long-term expectation' (p246 ...

  8. Labour market flexibility - Wikipedia

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    External numerical flexibility is the adjustment of the labour intake, or the number of workers from the external market. This can be achieved by employing workers on temporary work or fixed-term contracts or through relaxed hiring and firing regulations or in other words relaxation of employment protection legislation, where employers can hire and fire permanent employees according to the ...

  9. Supply (economics) - Wikipedia

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    In the labor market, the supply of labor is the amount of time per week, month, or year that individuals are willing to spend working, as a function of the wage rate. In the economic and financial field, the money supply is the amount of highly liquid assets available in the money market , which is either determined or influenced by a country's ...