• The term efficiency wages (also known as "efficiency earnings") was introduced by Alfred Marshall to denote the wage per efficiency unit of labor. Marshallian...
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  • wages can increase the efficiency of the labor market in monopsony scenarios, where individual employers have a degree of wage-setting power over the...
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    the topic: "A precursor to the efficiency wage literature...it had an influence, although the work on efficiency wage theory has had a bigger influence...
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  • In labour economics, Shapiro–Stiglitz theory of efficiency wages (or Shapiro–Stiglitz efficiency wage model) is an economic theory of wages and unemployment...
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    during recessions, because wages are kept 'too high'. Possible corollary: Wage sluggishness. Moving from one private cost of hiring (w∗) to another private...
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    Memorial Prize. In Efficiency Wage Models of the Labor Market, Akerlof and coauthor/wife, Janet Yellen propose rationales for the efficiency wage hypothesis in...
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  • including implicit contract theory, disequilibrium theory, staggered wage setting, and efficiency wages. The officially measured unemployment rate is the ratio...
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  • coffee break Shirking model, part of the economic principle of the efficiency wage USS Shirk (DD-318), a United States Navy destroyer in service 1921...
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  • Real rigidity (redirect from Wage rigidity)
    contracts as a poor basis for real wage rigidities, new Keynesian economists sought other explanations.: 384  Efficiency wage theories explain why firms might...
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  • Wage differential is a term used in labour economics to analyze the relation between the wage rate and the unpleasantness, risk, or other undesirable...
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    costs. efficiency wage Originally referred to the wage per efficiency unit of labor. Marshallian efficiency wages are those calculated with efficiency or...
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    of California, Berkeley Adverse selection (The Market for Lemons), Efficiency wage, Identity economics Michael Spence (b. 1943) Harvard University Harvard...
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  • willing workers unemployed. The most important of these theories was the efficiency wage theory used to explain long-term effects of previous unemployment,...
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    also cause more search unemployment because of increased mismatch. Efficiency wage models are labor market models in which firms choose not to lower wages...
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  • 1467-937X https://doi.org/10.2307/2296887 (4) "Unemployment and the efficiency wage hypothesis", Economic Journal, 91(364), December 1981, 848–866. Print...
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  • United States, which is a factor now considered in the analysis of efficiency wage. More recent researchers such as Peter Frumkin(2005) have also supported...
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  • com. Retrieved 2023-06-21. Akerlof, G. A. (1984). "Gift Exchange and Efficiency-Wage Theory: Four Views". The American Economic Review. 74 (2): 79–83. JSTOR 1816334...
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  • imbalance of information results in reverse selection or moral hazard. The efficiency wage theory may be applied to solve the problems arising from this. Then...
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  • Wage Payment Systems are the different methods adopted by organizations by which they remunerate labour. There exist several systems of employee wage...
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  • Incomes policies in economics are economy-wide wage and price controls, most commonly instituted as a response to inflation, and usually seeking to establish...
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    Individual capital Natural capital Social capital Wealth Consumer theory Efficiency wage hypothesis Efficient market hypothesis Marginalism Prospect theory...
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    correspond to market clearing (but instead to unemployment), as with the efficiency wage hypothesis in labor economics. In some ways parallel is the phenomenon...
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  • in a stable and sustainable manner. Efficiency wage models like that of Shapiro and Stiglitz (1984) suggest wage rents as an addition to monitoring, since...
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  • employees' on-the-job performance can make economic sense according to efficiency wage theory, while surveillance to prevent illegal activities should be...
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  • preference, and gave new prominence to the multiplier and the marginal efficiency of capital. The central argument of The General Theory is that the level...
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  • younger people decide to emigrate to a place where they can find work. Efficiency wage Full employment Guaranteed minimum income Involuntary unemployment...
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    dynamics of the markets for wage labour. Labour is a commodity that is supplied by labourers, usually in exchange for a wage paid by demanding firms. Because...
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  • Wage growth (or real wage growth) is a rise of wage adjusted for inflations, often expressed in percentage. In macroeconomics, wage growth is one of the...
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    Capitalism (redirect from Wage system)
    economic freedom, meritocracy, work ethic, consumer sovereignty, economic efficiency, profit motive, a financial infrastructure of money and investment that...
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    Barter (redirect from In-kind wage)
    developed a "theory of equitable exchange" as a critique of the exploitative wage relationship between capitalist and labourer, by which all profit accrued...
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