Graphical Illustration of Involuntary Unemployment in the Firm's Wage-Setting Model (Figure 6.17)
Figure 6.17 provides a graphical representation of involuntary unemployment within a single firm's wage-setting model. The model assumes that labor is the sole production cost and that each employee generates a fixed revenue (y), resulting in isoprofit curves of a consistent shape. The diagram displays the no-shirking wage (NSW) and reservation wage curves. It shows an employer setting a wage (w1) to deter shirking and hiring N1 workers, specifically those with reservation wages below a threshold (r1). Consequently, job applicants with reservation wages falling between r1 and the offered wage w1 are not hired. These individuals are deemed involuntarily unemployed because they are willing to work for the wage offered but do not receive a job.
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Graphical Illustration of Involuntary Unemployment in the Firm's Wage-Setting Model (Figure 6.17)
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