[ECON 101] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (59 pages long)

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The classical model and keynesian model are not the same. Classical model while the keynesian model assumes wages to be rigid downwards. During recession, consumers and firms cut down their expenses and workers are being retrenched. This causes unemployment to rise and output to fall (p0 to p1, and y0 to y1). The classical economists believed that this unemployment will lead to a pay-cut. At a lower wage (a lower cost of production), firms are willing to produce more (sras [w 0] shift to sras [w*]). Therefore, the classical model is a market clearing model and there is no sustained long-term unemployment. The wage is adjustable, because the workers want to keep their jobs and hence are willing to take the pay-cut. This cause p0 to drop to p1 and output also decrease from y0 to y1. But in this model, labour refuses to take a pay-cut. This causes unemployment to prevail in the long-run.

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