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When one switches from the obsolete subjective-behavioral approach to the correct objective-structural Paradigm then one gets this Employment Law Wikimedia AXEC07 for the business sector as a whole under the condition of product market clearing.
The equation says that employment L increases with
• investment expenditures I
• an increasing expenditure ratio ρE (i.e., the average propensity to consume),
• an increasing wage rate W,
if price P and productivity R in the consumption and investment industry as well as distributed profit remain unaltered in the period under consideration. A falling wage rate for the business sector as a whole increases unemployment and vice versa.
• investment expenditures I
• an increasing expenditure ratio ρE (i.e., the average propensity to consume),
• an increasing wage rate W,
if price P and productivity R in the consumption and investment industry as well as distributed profit remain unaltered in the period under consideration. A falling wage rate for the business sector as a whole increases unemployment and vice versa.
The testable structural Employment Law (2014, eq. (22)) is general; it includes the working of the macroeconomic wage-price mechanism and contains Keynes' argument as a special case. And it holds under inflationary and deflationary conditions.
Egmont Kakarot-Handtke
References
Kakarot-Handtke, E. (2014). The Three Fatal Mistakes of Yesterday Economics: Profit, I=S, Employment. SSRN Working Paper Series, 2489792: 1–13. URL
For details of the big picture see cross-references Employment/Phillips Curve.