Employment in PWT

An economic model represents the total number of employed workers in an economy with a single variable, N. Consider two economies, both with 100 employed workers. In Economy X, all workers have identical skills and work the same number of hours. In Economy Y, the workers have a wide variety of skills, experience levels, and work a mix of full-time and part-time hours. Based on the typical construction of this model, how would the total employment (N) for these two economies compare?

Limitations of the Total Employment Variable

Evaluating Labor Market Stability

In a standard aggregate economic model, if an economy's total employment (represented by the variable N) increases, it can be definitively concluded that the total hours worked in the economy have also increased.