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  2. Labour economics - Wikipedia

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    However, the labour market differs from other markets (like the markets for goods or the financial market) in several ways. In particular, the labour market may act as a non-clearing market. While according to neoclassical theory most markets quickly attain a point of equilibrium without excess supply or demand, this may not be true of the ...

  3. Shapiro–Stiglitz theory - Wikipedia

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    In labour economics, Shapiro–Stiglitz theory of efficiency wages (or Shapiro–Stiglitz efficiency wage model) [1] is an economic theory of wages and unemployment in labour market equilibrium. It provides a technical description of why wages are unlikely to fall and how involuntary unemployment appears.

  4. Economic equilibrium - Wikipedia

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    In most simple microeconomic stories of supply and demand a static equilibrium is observed in a market; however, economic equilibrium can be also dynamic. Equilibrium may also be economy-wide or general, as opposed to the partial equilibrium of a single market. Equilibrium can change if there is a change in demand or supply conditions.

  5. Supply and demand - Wikipedia

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    The equilibrium price for a certain type of labor is the ... including comparative statics from a shift of supply or demand and application to the labor market. ...

  6. Implicit contract theory - Wikipedia

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    Capital market shares some of the "imperfections" of the labor market discussed above: long term relationships between banks and borrowers act like the long term employment relationship between an employer and their workers. Like layoffs in the labor market, there is credit rationing in the financial market. Also, a typical loan contract is ...

  7. Walras's law - Wikipedia

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    It follows that the market value of total excess demand in the economy must be zero, which is the statement of Walras's law. Walras's law implies that if there are n markets and n – 1 of these are in equilibrium, then the last market must also be in equilibrium, a property which is essential in the proof of the existence of equilibrium.

  8. Sharp downgrades to US unit labor costs bode well for ... - AOL

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    "The labor market and wage growth are receding as a source of inflationary pressures," said Nancy Vanden Houten, lead U.S. economist at Oxford Economics.

  9. Natural rate of unemployment - Wikipedia

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    In this there is a competitive labor market with both labor supply and demand depend on the real wage and the natural rate is simply the competitive equilibrium where demand equals supply. Implicit in his vision is the notion that the natural rate is Unique: there is only one level of output and employment that is consistent with equilibrium.