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Example of a Wage Subsidy Calculation
To illustrate how a wage subsidy works, consider a firm that pays a worker a wage of $40. If the government offers a 10% wage subsidy, the firm receives $4 (10% of $40) back from the government. This reduces the firm's actual wage expenditure for that worker to $36.
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