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Impact of Monitoring Technology on Wage-Setting
A firm uses a model to set wages that are high enough to ensure employees do not shirk their responsibilities. This relationship is captured by an upward-sloping 'no-shirking wage curve', which represents the minimum wage the firm must pay for each level of employment. The firm maximizes its profit by choosing a point on this curve that is tangent to the highest possible isoprofit curve. Suppose a new technology is introduced that makes it significantly cheaper and more effective for the firm to monitor employee effort. Explain how this development would affect the position of the no-shirking wage curve and, consequently, the firm's profit-maximizing wage.
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