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Book Smartsthe contestants without college degrees who were chosen for the program were earning three times as much as those with college degrees. One way of measuring the payoff Labor Demand Curve college is to compare the extent to which the wages of college-trained workers exceed the wages of high-school-trained workers. In the United States the payoff from college has soared over the last 25 years. Female college graduates gained as well. The dramatic widening of the wage gap between workers with different levels of education reflects the operation of demand and supply in the market for labor.
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For reasons we will explore in Labog module, the demand for college graduates was increasing while the demand for high school graduates—particularly male high school graduates—was slumping. Why would the demand curves for different kinds of labor shift? What determines the demand for labor? What about the supply? How do changes in demand and supply Labor Demand Curve wages and employment?
In this module we will apply what we have Labor Demand Curve so far about production, profit maximization, and utility maximization to answer those see more in the context of a perfectly competitive De,and for labor. This is the first of three modules focusing on factor markets, that is, on markets in which households supply factors of production—labor, capital, and natural resources—demanded by firms. Look back at the circular flow model introduced in the initial module on demand and supply.
The bottom half of the circular flow model shows that households earn income from firms by supplying factors of production to them.
The total income earned by households thus equals the total income earned by the Labor Demand Curve, capital, and natural resources supplied to firms. Our focus in this module is on labor markets that operate in a competitive environment in which the individual buyers and sellers of labor are assumed to be price takers. Other modules on factor markets will discuss Cirve markets for capital and for natural resources and imperfectly competitive markets for labor and for other factors of production.
Labor generates considerably more income in the economy than all other factors of production combined. Figure The rest is generated by owners of capital and of natural resources.]
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