Consider a one-period closed economy, i.e. agents (consumers, firms and government) live for one period, consumers supply labor and demand consumption good, whereas firms supply consumption good and demand labor, and government finances an exogenous spending via lump-sum taxes. Suppose that representative consumer's preferences change, in that 7 goes up. Suppose that the government subsidizes employment. That is, the government pays the firm s units of consumption goods for each unit of labor the firm hires. Determine the effect of the subsidy on the firm's demand for labor: N“(w).

Consider a one-period closed economy, i.e. agents (consumers, firms and government) live for one period, consumers supply labor and demand consumption good, whereas firms supply consumption good and demand labor, and government finances an exogenous spending via lump-sum taxes. Suppose that representative consumer's preferences change, in that 7 goes up. Suppose that the government subsidizes employment. That is, the government pays the firm s units of consumption goods for each unit of labor the firm hires. Determine the effect of the subsidy on the firm's demand for labor: N“(w).

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