In: Economics
True or False: Explain your answer
If wages in nation 1 are lower than wages in nation 2, but labor productivity is much higher in nation 2, labor costs are not necessarily higher in nation 2.
True.
The labour productivity is positively related to the wage rates.
The equilibrium in the labour market occurred when the marginal
revenue product of labour equal to the wage rate. Firms will employ
more labours if the labour productivity increased. The demand for
labour increased with increasing production rate. The labour supply
and labour demand in the market determine the wage rate. This
increasing production will reduce the price level. This fall in
price level will increase the demand for goods and services in the
market the workers who works with high level of income. High
marginal productivity labour market will reduce the cost f
labour.
The concept of marginal productivity having a diminishing nature.
Thus the fall in marginal productivity will leads to the fall in
wage rate also. This will leads to high level unemployment in the
economy. Thus the lower wage rate may drives out several workers
from the market also. If the labour supply is low, the production
will also fall down and it will affect the national production
also.