Consider the following competitive labour market. There are many identical firms that can hire workers. Each firm produces the same output using a constant returns to scale technology and the price of output is set to one. The market determines a wage level w for labour. Let 0 denote the number of units of output that a worker can produce. There is asymmetric information. Worker productivity levels are privately known and are uniformly distributed on the interval [50, 000, 100, 000]. Let r(0) denote the reservation wage of an employee with productivity 0. (a) Explain fully what is meant by a competitive equilibrium in this market. (b) Suppose that r(0) = 0.80. Derive and graphically illustrate the firm's expected revenue conditional on workers choosing to accept employment. (c) Find the competitive equilibrium and calculate the percentage of the population that will be unemployed. (d) What would happen if, instead of types 0 being uniform on the interval [50, 000, 100, 000], we had just two equally-likely types, 0 = 50,000 and 0 = 100,000? %3D %3D

Consider the following competitive labour market. There are many identical firms that can hire workers. Each firm produces the same output using a constant returns to scale technology and the price of output is set to one. The market determines a wage level w for labour. Let 0 denote the number of units of output that a worker can produce. There is asymmetric information. Worker productivity levels are privately known and are uniformly distributed on the interval [50, 000, 100, 000]. Let r(0) denote the reservation wage of an employee with productivity 0. (a) Explain fully what is meant by a competitive equilibrium in this market. (b) Suppose that r(0) = 0.80. Derive and graphically illustrate the firm's expected revenue conditional on workers choosing to accept employment. (c) Find the competitive equilibrium and calculate the percentage of the population that will be unemployed. (d) What would happen if, instead of types 0 being uniform on the interval [50, 000, 100, 000], we had just two equally-likely types, 0 = 50,000 and 0 = 100,000? %3D %3D

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