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Learn about the dynamics of labor supply, producers' technology, production functions, inputs, profit maximization, labor markets, equilibrium, minimal wage, and profit maximization in the short and long run. Explore the complexities of the labor market equilibrium, optimal decision-making, and the variability of profit maximization.
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L15 Producers: Labor Markets
Producers • Producers: have a technology • Technology given by production function • Two inputs: Capital and Labor • Example • MPL and MPK (decreasing) • Short and Long run (fixed K or not) • Returns to Scale
Short Run (fixed K) • Profit maximization • Price taking • Example (Short run)
Labor Market: Equilibrium • Capital change A) B) C) D)
Labor Market: Equilibrium • Technology • Preferences
Long run ( not fixed) • We choose simultaneously and
Profit Maximization and IRS • Profit • Suppose that are optimal • What can we say about at ? • Profit maximization not always well defined