Firm Pricing and Productivity Changes
A company that manufactures widgets successfully implements a new technology that allows each worker to produce 20% more widgets per hour. The company continues to pay its workers the same hourly monetary wage, and the level of competition it faces from other widget-makers remains unchanged. Explain how this increase in worker output will likely affect the company's price per widget and the real purchasing power of its workers' wages.
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A single, profit-maximizing firm operates in a market where new technology significantly lowers the barriers to entry, leading to an increase in the number of competing companies. Assuming the firm's labor costs per unit of output remain unchanged, how will this intensified competition most likely affect the firm's pricing decision and the real wage implied by that price?
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