Talk:Labour supply

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Lump of Labor falacy
I got rid of the section about overpopulation causing unemployment. Without further elaboration this is too close to the lump-of-labor falacy whereby theres a fixed amount of work and more people simply mean more idle people. If the original author was doing something about short-term effects they should have said so.

What is labor supply?
The pre-existing, Marxist view, article on labor supply is not really compatible with the view of labor supply as it is generally defined in modern economics. This should really be two separate articles. Since "labor supply"'s most common usage is that found in modern economics this article should be about that. Another article - say "labor pool" or whatever the proper Marxist term is - could be created to describe the historical definition of the notion.radek (talk) 09:03, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

Dr. Leigh's comment on this article
Dr. Leigh has reviewed this Wikipedia page, and provided us with the following comments to improve its quality:

"It would be good to show a graph of the standard upward-sloping labor supply model, explaining why it slopes upwards. The backward-bending chart is a neat curio, but should be relegated further down the entry. This will make clear to readers that while the individual labor supply curve might bend backwards, the aggregate labor supply curve does not."

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 * Reference : Andrew Leigh, 2005. "Optimal Design of Earned Income Tax Credits: Evidence from a British Natural Experiment," CEPR Discussion Papers 488, Centre for Economic Policy Research, Research School of Economics, Australian National University.

ExpertIdeasBot (talk) 14:38, 30 May 2016 (UTC)

Dr. Gonzalez's comment on this article
Dr. Gonzalez has reviewed this Wikipedia page, and provided us with the following comments to improve its quality:

"I do not see any inaccuracies in the current article."

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We believe Dr. Gonzalez has expertise on the topic of this article, since he has published relevant scholarly research:


 * Reference : Gonzalez, Libertad, 2011. "The Effects of a Universal Child Benefit," IZA Discussion Papers 5994, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA).

ExpertIdeasBot (talk) 15:35, 24 August 2016 (UTC)

Dr. Migheli's comment on this article
Dr. Migheli has reviewed this Wikipedia page, and provided us with the following comments to improve its quality:

"While the contents are correct and clearly written, there are several aspects of labour demand that are not presented. In particular, the effects of taxation, those of minimum wages, what happens to wages and to labour supply when unemployment increases (or decreases)."

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We believe Dr. Migheli has expertise on the topic of this article, since he has published relevant scholarly research:


 * Reference : Migheli, Matteo & Scacciati, Francesco, 2009. "How does labor supply react to different tax rates? A field inquiry," POLIS Working Papers 124, Institute of Public Policy and Public Choice - POLIS.

ExpertIdeasBot (talk) 16:15, 24 August 2016 (UTC)

Rename to Labor supply (American English spelling)?
Anyone oppose (or support) a change of the title of this article to "Labor Supply", which is the American English spelling over "Labour supply" which is the British English spelling? Th78blue (They/Them/Their • talk) 21:17, 26 November 2021 (UTC)