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Explain the burden of social security taxes in each case and illustrate the two labor market diagrams.
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The legislature in a state in the South passes strong "right-to-work" laws that make it very difficult for unions to organize workers, so the wage is always equal to the market-clearing value. Except for this difference in legislation, the northern and southern states are very similar.The initial position of a supply-and-demand graph corresponds to the initial labor market condition in the southern state before the labor union negotiated the new, higher wage for workers in the northern state.Suppose that after the wage goes up in the northern state, some workers in the northern state lose their jobs and decide to move to the southern state.
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