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Is labor impacted by relative supply and demand? If there is a shortage of trained engineers, will their income go up? If there is a surplus of recent law-school graduates, will their income go down? If we increase the price of labor without altering supply, will demand go down?
In short, is labor effected by supply and demand? Or magically is it the one service / commodity that isn't, just because it happens to be the thing that most of us sell?
Poll is in response to several people that I have seen either explicitly or implicitly argue the latter, that somehow if you increase the cost of labor, you do not decrease demand when supply is held constant.
In short, is labor effected by supply and demand? Or magically is it the one service / commodity that isn't, just because it happens to be the thing that most of us sell?
Poll is in response to several people that I have seen either explicitly or implicitly argue the latter, that somehow if you increase the cost of labor, you do not decrease demand when supply is held constant.