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  2. Causes of income inequality in the United States - Wikipedia

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    BLS explained the gap between productivity and compensation can be divided into two components, the effect of which varies by industry: 1) Recalculating the gap using an industry-specific inflation adjustment ("industry deflator") rather than consumption (CPI); and 2) The change in labor's share of income, defined as how much of a business ...

  3. Compensating differential - Wikipedia

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    A compensating differential, which is also called a compensating wage differential or an equalizing difference, is defined as the additional amount of income that a given worker must be offered in order to motivate them to accept a given undesirable job, relative to other jobs that worker could perform.

  4. Labor market segmentation - Wikipedia

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    In this model, the difference between different workers' wages and conditions arise from individual differences in their human capital (skills, experience, or formal education) or tastes. On the latter, as part of the theory of compensating wage differentials , those who prefer risky or dirty jobs receive higher compensation than those who take ...

  5. Labour economics - Wikipedia

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    These supply and demand curves can be analysed in the same way as any other industry demand and supply curves to determine equilibrium wage and employment levels. Wage differences exist, particularly in mixed and fully/partly flexible labour markets. For example, the wages of a doctor and a port cleaner, both employed by the NHS, differ greatly ...

  6. Keynes's theory of wages and prices - Wikipedia

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    Keynes does not accept the quantity theory. He writes effective demand [meaning money income] will not change in exact proportion to the quantity of money. [17] The correction [18] is based on the mechanism we have already described under Keynesian economic intervention. Money supply influences the economy through liquidity preference, whose ...

  7. Supply and demand - Wikipedia

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    Supply chain as connected supply and demand curves. In microeconomics, supply and demand is an economic model of price determination in a market.It postulates that, holding all else equal, the unit price for a particular good or other traded item in a perfectly competitive market, will vary until it settles at the market-clearing price, where the quantity demanded equals the quantity supplied ...

  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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    The supply function is the mathematical expression of the relationship between supply and those factors that affect the willingness and ability of a supplier to offer goods for sale. An example would be the curve implied by Q s = f ( P ; P rg ) {\displaystyle Q_{\text{s}}=f(P;P_{\text{rg}})} where P {\displaystyle P} is the price of the good ...