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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.

  3. 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.

  4. Labour supply - Wikipedia

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    From a Marxist perspective, a labour supply is a core requirement in a capitalist society.To avoid labour shortage and ensure a labour supply, a large portion of the population must not possess sources of self-provisioning, which would let them be independent—and they must instead, to survive, be compelled to sell their labour for a subsistence wage.

  5. 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 ...

  6. Unemployment - Wikipedia

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    Structural unemployment focuses on foundational problems in the economy and inefficiencies inherent in labor markets, including a mismatch between the supply and demand of laborers with necessary skill sets. Structural arguments emphasize causes and solutions related to disruptive technologies and globalization. Discussions of frictional ...

  7. 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 ...

  8. 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 ...

  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 ...