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  2. Labour supply - Wikipedia

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    In mainstream economic theories, the labour supply is the total hours (adjusted for intensity of effort) that workers wish to work at a given real wage rate. It is frequently represented graphically by a labour supply curve, which shows hypothetical wage rates plotted vertically and the amount of labour that an individual or group of ...

  3. 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 ...

  4. Economic graph - Wikipedia

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    The graph depicts an increase (that is, right-shift) in demand from D 1 to D 2 along with the consequent increase in price and quantity required to reach a new equilibrium point on the supply curve (S). A common and specific example is the supply-and-demand graph shown at right. This graph shows supply and demand as opposing curves, and the ...

  5. 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 ...

  6. Supply (economics) - Wikipedia

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    A supply schedule is a table which shows how much one or more firms will be willing to supply at particular prices under the existing circumstances. [1] Some of the more important factors affecting supply are the good's own price, the prices of related goods, production costs, technology, the production function, and expectations of sellers.

  7. Everyday Economics: Signs of slowing economic activity as ...

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    This is consistent with leading indicators like the rising 4-week average of initial jobless claims combined with a slight easing of the number of continued claims.Steady wage growth, holding near ...

  8. US weekly jobless claims fall; third-quarter GDP growth ...

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    Domestic demand increased at a 2.7% pace in the second quarter. National after-tax profits without inventory valuation and capital consumption adjustments decreased $15.0 billion, or 0.4%.

  9. Factor market - Wikipedia

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    The labor market demand curve is the MRPL curve. The curve shows the relationship between the quantity demanded and the wage rate holding the marginal product of labor and the output price constant. The units of labor are on the horizontal axis and the price of labor, w (the wage rate) on the vertical axis.