Competing Effects on Firm Wage Costs
A firm determines its product price by adding a profit markup over its gross wage costs. Imagine two events occur at the same time: first, the firm gains more market power, allowing it to increase its profit markup. Second, a technological improvement increases the productivity of its workforce. Based on the relationship between a firm's real wage cost, its profit markup, and labor productivity, analyze the impact of each event separately and then explain why the combined net effect on the firm's real wage cost is uncertain.
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