ECON1102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Market Clearing, Output Gap, Frictional Unemployment

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Leads to higher employment levels, and higher wage costs: an increase in labour productivity would increase demand for labour, leading to higher employment and wage costs. Wages and the supply of labour: supply of labour are workers or potential workers willing to work at each real wage. It is dependent on an individual"s real wage and the opportunity costs of working (reservation wage) If real wage > than reservation wage, people will work. Immigration: changes in birth rates, retirement age, starting work age. The reverse is true for shortages of labour. Explaining trends in real wages and employment: the increase in real wage growth in australia is due to improved levels of labour productivity, leading to an increase in the demand for workers. Labour market outcomes from the past four decades: 1970s- rapid wage increases not matched by productivity increases.

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