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HOMOGENEOUS OF DEGREE ONE: A property of an equation the exists if independent variables are increased by a constant value, then the dependent variable is increased by the same value. In other words, if the independent variables are doubled, then the dependent variable is also doubled. This property often surfaces in the analysis of production functions. A production function homogeneous of degree one is said to have constant returns to scale.

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Lesson 21: Factor Demand | Unit 3: The Curve Page: 14 of 24

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  • The number of workers the firm is willing to hire for production depends on the marginal revenue product of the workers.

  • In particular, the firm compares the wage or price paid each worker with the marginal revenue product generated by the worker.

  • It will seek to employ workers up to the quantity in which marginal revenue product is at least as much as the wage.

  • The story seems quite clear: If the wage the firm pays workers is $20 per hour, then it will hire only 6 employees.

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STRUCTURAL UNEMPLOYMENT

Unemployment caused by a mismatch between workers' skills and the skills needed for available jobs. Structural unemployment essentially occurs because resources, especially labor, are configured (trained) for a given technology but the economy demands goods and services using another technology. Employers seek workers who have one type of skill and workers seeking employment have a different type of skill. This mismatch in skills, largely the result of technological progress, creates unemployment of the structural variety. Structural unemployment is one of four unemployment sources. The other three are cyclical unemployment, seasonal unemployment, and frictional unemployment. Frictional and structural unemployment are the two components of natural unemployment.

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