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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. Iron law of wages - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] [3] It was coined in reference to the views of classical economists such as David Ricardo 's law of rent , and the competing population theory of Thomas Malthus . It held that the market price of labor (which tends toward the minimum required for the subsistence of the laborers) would always, or almost always, reduce as the working ...

  4. 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 ...

  5. Free market - Wikipedia

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    The model is commonly applied to wages in the market for labor. The typical roles of supplier and consumer are reversed. The suppliers are individuals, who try to sell (supply) their labor for the highest price. The consumers are businesses, which try to buy (demand) the type of labor they need at the lowest price.

  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. Supply and demand - Wikipedia

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    Note in the diagram that the shift of the demand curve, by causing a new equilibrium price to emerge, resulted in movement along the supply curve from the point (Q 1, P 1) to the point (Q 2, P 2). If the demand decreases , then the opposite happens: a shift of the curve to the left.

  8. Labor theory of value - Wikipedia

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    While the LTV posits that value is primarily determined by labor, it recognizes that the actual price of a commodity is influenced in the short-term by the profit motive [10] and market conditions, including supply and demand [11] [12] and the extent of monopolization. [13]

  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 ...