Deriving the Economy-Wide WS Curve from Firm-Level Decisions
The economy-wide Wage-Setting (WS) curve is constructed by aggregating the wage-setting decisions of individual firms. The analysis begins at the microeconomic level, examining how a single firm determines the optimal wage to motivate its workers. By combining these individual decisions across the entire economy, the macroeconomic WS curve is formed. This micro-to-macro approach is essential for understanding the factors that shift the WS curve and, consequently, influence the economy's overall supply-side equilibrium in the WS-PS model.
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