Only if all suppliers of a product can sell as much as they want at the price floor is it possible for them to be better off as a group, and then only temporarily. But even in this case, the benefit to suppliers was only temporary since competition among farmers increased the cost of doing business.
For example, the lure of above-market prices prompted farmers to bid up the price of land. That is, the price of land incorporated the benefits of the price supports. Those who owned good farmland before the programs started won windfall benefits, but those who entered farming afterward and paid inflated land prices did not. A good example of how price floors can harm the very people who are supposed to be helped by undermining economic cooperation is the minimum wage. Legislating a minimum wage is commonly seen as an effective way of giving raises to low-wage workers.
Unfortunately, it, like any price floor, creates a surplus. In this case, it is a surplus of workers suppliers of labor , more of whom are willing to work in minimum-wage jobs than there are employers demanders willing to hire at that wage. A wage floor hits workers with limited skills, primarily young people. According to The Economist , in the average unemployment rate among workers under 25 was three times greater than the average unemployment rate among those 25 or older June 27, Young people are best able to improve their economic prospects by developing skills that increase their productivity.
Google Classroom Facebook Twitter. Video transcript Voiceover: Let's think a little bit about the labor market. In all of these videos, whether we're talking about renting units or hiring people, these are huge oversimplifications, but we're doing it in this way so we can apply some of these basic ideas that we're being exposed to in this survey of microeconomics, so that we can apply those basic ideas to real world things.
It's important to realize we're making huge oversimplifications and often times the real context can be more complicated or a little bit nuanced, but it gives us a way of thinking about things.
This is the unskilled labor market, so people who don't have any specific training or experience for a given job. The vertical axis is their wage rate per hour.
It's essentially the price of labor. This little gap here shows I started at zero, but then I jumped up to five, six, seven. This right here is a quantity of labor.
We're measuring that in terms of millions of hours per month. Once again, we have this little gap here, so we can jump to 20 million hours, 21 million hours. It's important to realize, when we think about demand in the labor market, we're not talking about individual consumers, we're talking about employers. In most cases, demand comes from individual consumers, but now the demand is coming from employers. These are the people who are essentially buying labor.
The supply is not coming from corporations. The supply is coming from the people who provide labor, so now it's coming from individual workers. Now it is coming from workers. Let's say the government in this hypothetical city or country says, "You know what? More specifically, it is defined as an intervention to raise market prices if the government feels the price is too low.
In this case, since the new price is higher, the producers benefit. For a price floor to be effective, the minimum price has to be higher than the equilibrium price. For example, many governments intervene by establishing price floors to ensure that farmers make enough money by guaranteeing a minimum price that their goods can be sold for.
The most common example of a price floor is the minimum wage. This is the minimum price that employers can pay workers for their labor. The opposite of a price floor is a price ceiling. For a price floor to be effective, it must be set above the equilibrium price. In the diagram above, the minimum price P2 is below the equilibrium price at P1. Since the equilibrium price is higher, this price floor will be ignored.
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