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Labour demand and real wages

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  • Farm, Ante

    (Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University)

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This paper shows that the traditional model of labour demand in a firm is incomplete and that the determinants of labour demand in a complete model include the demand for the firm’s products but not the real wage.

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  • Farm, Ante, 2017. "Labour demand and real wages," Working Paper Series 4/2017, Stockholm University, Swedish Institute for Social Research.
    • Handle: RePEc:hhs:sofiwp:2017_004
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    Keywords

    Labour demand; employment; real wage;
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    • J23 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Labor Demand

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