L11 Econ 1021 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Unemployment Benefits, Real Wages, Marginal Product

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Over the twentieth century, all industrial countries have enjoyed substantial growth in real wages. Since the early 1970s, however, the rate of real wage growth has stagnated, while both the number of people with jobs and the percentage of the population employed have grown substantially. Real hourly wages were exactly the same in 2012 as they were in 1970. Recent decades have brought a pronounced increase in wage inequality in the. In the labor market, the price is the real wage paid to workers in exchange for their services. The quantity is the amount of labor firms use. Diminishing returns to labor: if the amount of capital and other inputs in use is held constant, then the greater the quantity of labor already employed, the less each additional worker adds to production. The marginal product of each worker is the extra production that is gained by adding one more worker.

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