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melina_rosy

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What is collective bargaining? How can it result in higher unemployment in a country?
 
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Consumption is likely to fall if ________.
 
  A) the number of mortgage defaults in an economy rises
  B) the revenue earned by firms increase
  C) the demand for labor rises
  D) the supply of labor decreases
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Reply #1 on: Jun 30, 2018
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Collective bargaining refers to contract negotiations between an employer and a labor union representing workers. One of the objectives of collective bargaining is to bargain for better wages for workers. As a result, collective bargaining fixes the wage rate above the market clearing level. Once the wages are fixed at a higher level, wage rigidity prevents it from falling. At this higher level of wage, quantity supplied of labor exceeds the quantity demanded of labor and this causes unemployment.

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