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A Professor in Your Microeconomics Lectures Derived a Labor Demand

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A professor in your microeconomics lectures derived a labor demand curve in the lecture. Given some reasonable assumptions, she showed that the demand for labor depends negatively on the real wage. You want to put this hypothesis to the test ("show me")and collect data on employment and real wages for a certain industry. You try to estimate the labor demand curve but find no relationship between the two variables. Is economic theory wrong? Explain.


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