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Norm Bounds and A Homographic Approximation for the Wage–Profit Curve
Author(s) -
Mariolis Theodore
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
metroeconomica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.256
H-Index - 29
eISSN - 1467-999X
pISSN - 0026-1386
DOI - 10.1111/meca.12069
Subject(s) - profit (economics) , economics , wage , norm (philosophy) , upper and lower bounds , econometrics , mathematical economics , mathematics , microeconomics , labour economics , mathematical analysis , political science , law
This paper provides lower and upper norm bounds for the wage–profit curve in linear single‐product systems. Thus, it also constructs an algebraically simple (i.e. homographic) and empirically powerful approximation to that curve. The results finally suggest that actual economies tend to behave as ‘corn‐tractor’ systems with respect to the shape of the wage–profit curve and, at the same time, behave as three‐industry systems with respect to the shape of the production price–profit rate curves.