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Perfectly competitive labour market

A hypothetical ideal, in which the following conditions are met:

Many suppliers of labour and many buyers of labour, none with any market power, therefore workers are all wage-takers and no employers are wage-makers
Homogeneous labour supply (i.e. all workers have identical skills and abilities, and can transfer between jobs easily)
No government intervention
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