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AGGREGATE PRODUCTION FUNCTION: A relation between the total production of real output for an economy and the amount of labor input. The aggregate production function is comparable to the standard production function used in the microeconomic analysis of firm behavior but is applied to the macroeconomic study of aggregate supply, resource markets, and employment. It is typically assumed to experience diminishing marginal returns, resulting in a decreasing marginal product of labor.
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Lesson 23: Factor Market Equilibrium | Unit 3: Perfect Competition
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- The primary condition for profit-maximization AND efficiency derived from the analysis of labor employment is:
- MRP = MFC = W
- This conditions states that a profit-maximizing firm hires labor services up to the quantity that equates marginal revenue product (MRP) and marginal factor cost (MFC).
- Efficiency results because the marginal revenue product (MRP) is equal to the wage (W).
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DEMAND DECREASE A decrease in the willingness and ability of buyers to purchase a good at the existing price, illustrated by a leftward shift of the demand curve. A decrease in demand is caused by a change in a demand determinant and results in a decrease in equilibrium quantity and a decrease in equilibrium price. A demand decrease is one of two demand shocks to the market. The other is a demand increase.
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CACM Central American Common Market
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