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Unemployment is due to real wages being to high. Do you agree? There are four possible relationships between real wages (RW) and unemployment (U): Firstly, U can be caused by high RW (the "classical" case), secondly high RW can be just a symptom of U rather than its cause, thirdly RW can be simply irrelevant to U and, finally, higher RW may even be a solution or, at least, a prerequisite for the solution of the U problem. This debate is of particular importance not only because it deals with the major issue of how to combat U but also because it sheds light on the micro roots of the theories of U, focusing in particular on their labour market assumptions which are currently one of the major areas of controversy in economics. It should be noted here that throughout the essay the term RW will refer to the so called "product...

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