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Reconstructing Wage Levels from the Bargaining Gap
In a specific economic model, the 'bargaining gap' is calculated as the percentage difference between the real wage workers demand and the real wage firms offer, relative to the wage firms offer. If an economy is observed to have a positive bargaining gap of 3%, and the real wage level consistent with firms' profit-maximizing decisions is indexed at 105, what is the indexed real wage level that workers are demanding? Show your calculation.
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