Clifford s 60 second explanation of the labor market for cooks and the affects of minimum wage.
Factor market wage floor.
Earnings equals the wage rate multiplied by the number of hours worked so an employee earning minimum wage and working the typical 40 hour week earns 7 25 40 290 per week 15 080 per year.
Wage differentials are also found on account of imperfect market competition in the factor market.
A factor market is different from the product or output market the market for finished products or services.
But if minimum wage is set above market price employers may distribute more work among few workers and terminate rest of the workers in order to not to pay more wage to more workers.
Setting price floor will obviously help few workers in getting higher wage.
In a monopsonistic labor market employers are wage.
A person seeking employment enters the factor market.
Inertia family attachment language religion caste are the factors by which labour has limited mobility from one region to another.
Nominal wage is the amount earned in terms of dollars or other currency while the real wage is the amount earned in terms of what it can actually.
In the latter households are buyers and businesses are sellers.
Minimum wage is an example of a wage floor and functions as a minimum price per hour that a worker must be paid as determined by federal and state governments.
Union negotiated wage acts as a price.
Everyone participates in the factor market.
Diagram of wage determination.
If minimum wage is set below the market price no effect is seen.
Example of a price floor the original equilibrium in this labor market is a wage of 10 hour and a quantity of 1 200 workers shown at point e.
Households are sellers and businesses are buyers.
Employees are paid a wage through the factor market.
Households may also receive dividends or rent from a business as compensation for providing financial.
This is reversed in the factor market.
Therefore they have to set the equilibrium wage we.
In cities wage rates are high while rural labour is available at low wage rates.
An organization that tries to protect the workers interests.
Remember that the firms are now demanding and individuals.
The equilibrium wage rate in the industry is set by the meeting point of the industry supply and industry demand curves.
Imposing a wage floor at 12 hour leads to an excess supply of labor.
In a competitive market firms are wage takers because if they set lower wages workers would not accept the wage.