Assumptions of the Economy-Wide Wage-Setting Model
To model an entire economy based on the single-firm wage-setting model, a set of simplifying assumptions is made. It is assumed that there is a fixed number of identical firms, all sharing the same productivity, recruitment challenges, and labor discipline issues. Consequently, the cost of effort and employment rent are uniform across all firms, leading them all to face the same no-shirking wage curve and to set the same wage (w) and employment level (N).
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