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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. Supply and demand - Wikipedia

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    The aggregate demand-aggregate supply model may be the most direct application of supply and demand to macroeconomics, but other macroeconomic models also use supply and demand. Compared to microeconomic uses of demand and supply, different (and more controversial) theoretical considerations apply to such macroeconomic counterparts as aggregate ...

  4. 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 ...

  5. The labor problem - Wikipedia

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    "The labor problem" is the economics term widely used toward the turn of the 20th century with various applications. [1] It has been defined in many ways, such as "the problem of improving the conditions of employment of the wage-earning classes."

  6. The Economics of Imperfect Competition - Wikipedia

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    The analysis parallels the earlier discussions on the supply curve of a commodity. Book VIII: The Comparison of Monopoly and Competitive Demand for Labor - This book compares the demand for labor under monopoly and perfect competition, similar to the comparisons made in Book IV for output levels.

  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. Shortage - Wikipedia

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    Difference between supply and demand Unemployed men queue outside a depression soup kitchen in United States during the Great Depression. A 2014 image of product shortages in Venezuela. In economics, a shortage or excess demand is a situation in which the demand for a product or service exceeds its supply in a market.

  9. Category:Labour economics - Wikipedia

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    Labor demand; Labor market of Japan; Labor market segmentation; Labor mobility; The labor problem; Labor theory of value; Labour Economics (journal) Labour market flexibility; Labour supply; Lewis turning point; Lump of labour fallacy