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Overview of the Labor Market. Labor: input into production of goods and services Labor market: Buyers and sellers of labor Buyers (demand side) 7 million firms Sellers (supply side) 150 million 142 million employees. Unique features of labor market. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Overview of the Labor Market
Labor: input into production of goods and services
Labor market: Buyers and sellers of labor
Buyers (demand side) 7 million firms
Sellers (supply side) 150 million
142 million employees
Unique features of labor market
1. Can’t buy or sell people, rent services2. People care, with whom they work3. Long-term attachments
1. No explicit contract2. Markets clear slowly
4. Market definitions1. Geography2. Skill-occupation3. industry
Market clearing
How do we assign 142 million people to 7 million employers?
Wages
• Common signal to supply-side and demand side– Demand-side: input price– Supply-side: source of purchasing power
Real wage: purchasing power of wage
= wage in current $/price level
Meisenheimer , Joseph R. “Real compensation, 1979 to 2003: analysis from several data.sources.” Monthly Labor Review 128 (May 2005): 3-22
Wages are 72% of total compensation
Meisenheimer , Joseph R. “Real compensation, 1979 to 2003: analysis from several data.sources.” Monthly Labor Review 128 (May 2005): 3-22
Benefits have risen faster than wages—due largely to cost of maintaining health insurance
Overview of the Labor Market
Labor market:
Demand-side: firms
Supply side: labor force
Common signal: Wage
Aim: allocate workers to firms
Sincavage, Jessica R. “The labor force and unemployment: three generations of change” Monthly Labor Review 128 (June 2004): 34-41.
Application : Baby-boom and the labor market
http://www.census.gov/ipc/prod/97agewc.pdf
http://www.census.gov/ipc/prod/97agewc.pdf
http://www.census.gov/ipc/prod/97agewc.pdf