Hiring Needs and Wage for a Workforce of 20
To maintain a small workforce of 20 employees (N=20), a firm must replace an average of 0.8 workers who leave each week. Based on the hiring line diagram, attracting this number of new hires requires setting a weekly wage of €600.
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