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         Modeling state regulation of the labour market

                                 Valery Heyets[0000-0002-2895-6114]

    Institute for Economics and Forecasting, 26, Panasa Myrnogo Str., Kyiv, 01011, Ukraine
                                   heyets@nas.gov.ua

                                     Mykhaylo Voynarenko

      Khmelnytsky National University, 11, Instytutska Str., Khmelnytsky, 29016, Ukraine
                                voynarenko@ukr.net

                 Anatoliy Kholodenko[0000-0001-7626-5820] and Nina Stepanok

       Odesa National Maritime University, 34, Mechnykova Str., Odesa, 65029, Ukraine
                    anathol2035@gmail.com, Gluk_@ukr.net



        Abstract. The purpose of this article is to justify the necessity for state regulation
        of the labour market. Various options for setting wages at the state level, trade
        unions and employers are considered. It is shown the expediency of state
        regulation of the labour market in order to ensure the optimal level of
        employment. It has been established that the maximum tax base and the highest
        level of employment are achieved simultaneously, with the same optimal level of
        remuneration. None of these goals can be achieved separately from the other.

        Keywords: labour market, state’s regulation, optimal level of employment,
        wages, employers.


1       Introduction

Unemployment is one of the most acute social and economic problems. A high level of
unemployment indicates a low level of supply of goods, because when the amount of
capital and are specified, production depends on the amount of labour resources used.
At the same time, excessive unemployment is the cause of the low level of consumer
demand, which also leads to the formation of disproportions in the economy. The
minimum unemployment is one of the criteria of a developed economy, therefore, the
problem of studying the characteristics of the labour market and the formation of wages
is very relevant.
   The article [1] shows the rising relevance of the institutional theories for the labour
market economics. The paper [2] develops a New Keynesian model with labour search
and investigates the effects of product and labour market regulation on macroeconomic
outcomes. The paper [3] explores the influence of labour market institutions on
aggregate fluctuations. The article [4] reviews concepts and theories regarding
economic balance in incidence with the labour market. In paper [5] is estimated a
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dynamic stochastic search-matching model with heterogeneous workers and aggregate
productivity shocks. In [6] is found that workers respond to declining macroeconomic
conditions by increasing work effort. In the paper [7] labour market institutions and
policies are shown to affect the labour income share. In the article [8] author examines
the effect of employment protection rules on labour productivity. The paper [9]
analyses possible relations between Employment protection legislation, real GDP
growth and wage share. The paper [10] studies the macroeconomic impact of a statutory
minimum wage. The paper [11] investigates the relationship between political
instability and labour market institutions. In the article [12] the effects of labour market
reforms are studied in an innovation-driven model of endogenous growth with a
heterogeneous labour force, labour market rigidities, and structural unemployment. In
the article [13] is created structural vector autoregressive error correction model for
labour productivity, employment, unemployment rate and real wages. The paper [14]
uses individual-level data to estimate the labour market consequences of environmental
policies. In the paper [15] a theoretical model to investigate the relation between
corruption and labour supply is developed. The paper [16] proposes a novel approach
to identify structural long-term driving forces of the labour market and their short-run
state-dependent effects. The paper [17] has found a negative relation between long-run
economic growth and unemployment. In the article [18] authors introduce wage inertia
in the neoclassical one sector growth model. In the paper [19] is shown that a standard
flexible price model with labour market frictions that allows hiring costs to depend on
technology shocks may also lead to the same negative impact on labour inputs. The
paper [20] examines the effect of minimum wage increases on hours of work and
employment. The paper [21] analyses the evolution of the elasticity of labour demand
and the possible role of offshoring therein. The paper [22] studies a labour market with
search and matching frictions, and a monopoly union. The paper [23] explores
uncertainty shocks as a driving force in a search and matching model of the labour
market. The article [24] study a model where households are subject to uninsurable
unemployment risk, price setting is subject to nominal rigidities, and the labour market
is characterized by matching frictions and inflexible wages. Authors of the paper [25]
develop a new Keynesian model with unemployment and endogenous participation.
The article [26] proposes a model with an endogenous labour force and compare with
the model with an exogenous labour force.
   A well-developed market economy does not mean any kind of “absolute freedom”
and “free play” of economic forces, directed by the “invisible hand” of self-regulated
competition. For modern conditions, interweaving of market with state regulation
methods and their combination in many spheres of economy is characteristic. So the
labour market faces the opposite interests of employers and workers or firms and
households. It is the state that can treat these antagonistic macroeconomic agents as a
whole, as a single system of employers-workers and develop optimal solutions for their
interaction, provide recommendations and regulate their activities. After all, it is the
state that is interested in the fact that the individual results of the activities of firms and
households accumulate in the maximum value of national income and employment.
   Thus, the purpose of this article is to justify the necessity for state regulation of the
labour market.
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2      Results

The labour market, based on the results of the interaction of supply and demand,
establishes the level of employment, which affects the supply of goods, the national
income, and the effective households demand. In case of exceeding the supply of labour
on demand, unemployment is created, which has not only economic but also social and
political consequences. This shows the multifaceted nature of this problem. The state
receives direct taxes on the income of households and firms in order to replenish the
budget and perform its functions. This indicates the state’s interest in ensuring that the
profits of the employer-worker system (firms-households) are maximized but not
fundamentally, exactly how these profits are distributed among the participants of the
system, in case of equal rate of tax on the profits of employers or workers. At the same
time, one of the functions of the state is the redistribution of income and the provision
of social assistance to the unemployed. Thus, the state itself should aim to achieve
optimal interaction between households and firms, minimum unemployment and
maximum production. So, let’s consider from the point of view of the state, the purpose
of which is to obtain the maximum tax revenues to the budget from the total income of
employers-workers, the functioning of this system.
   For firms, the rest of the production factors, in addition to labour resources (fixed
assets, circulating assets), do not have their economic interests, therefore, it can only
be talked about their optimal use. Another parameter of optimization – the quantity of
labour resources, has its own characteristics. On the one hand, the wages of workers
are costs that increase the price of goods and services, and, on the other hand, wages
are an incentive to work, that can motivate workers to increase their productivity, skills
development and the use of talent, and thus to achieve greater profits by firms. In
addition, it is human resources that are the driving force of progress, since no other
production factor has such a unique characteristic as the mind and the ability to think
and improve the environment. At the national economy’s level, households’ solvent
demand affects the level of sales of goods of firms, and household saving is a source of
realization of investment demand of firms.
   Regarding the labour force, its owners should be considered as independent
economic entities with their own interests. Therefore, it is necessary to define certain
equilibrium conditions in the relations between employers (firms) and workers
(households).
   First, let’s consider optimizing the profits of firms with the exception of wages
(Fig. 1). The function F(L) is increasing, but it is slower and concave (convex upward),
because for the implementation of additional volumes of products and services in the
market it is necessary to gradually reduce prices, attract more expensive resources,
time, etc.
   Then let’s consider the workers (households) with the increasing convex down
function of the expenses of E(L) to provide the amount of labour in volume L, since,
in addition to the restoration of physical and emotional forces, workers need to get
education, train mental and professional abilities, improve their qualifications, etc.
   By virtue of these significant nonlinearities, there are two points of break-evenness
L0 and Ln (points of intersection of the curves F(L) and E(L)) in Fig. 1. Such situation
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is in contrast to the standard linear case, where such a break-even point is one and the
task is only to find it because the more L the better it seems to be.


                                                                F(L)




                                                            E(L)




                 0 L0                                                  Ln   L
               Fig. 1. Definition of break-even points of firms and households.

In fact, such an unlimited increase in profits is unrealistic, in addition to the left-hand
side of the break-even, there will always be rights, and the truth, the maximum profit
will be located somewhere in the middle. Therefore, it is inappropriate to restrict the
analysis to the definition of the break-even point only; the optimum point should also
be found.
   From the standpoint of firms in general, should maximize total profits

                             P( L)  F ( L)  E ( L)  max                             (1)
                                                            L


The maximum profit P=AC (Fig. 2) of firms can be distributed among employers and
workers as P1=AB and P2=BC. The state also fulfills the goal and receives the maximum
amount of tax revenues to the budget from the total income of employers and workers,
namely, the rate as a percentage of P1=AB as taxes on employers and percent of P2=BC
as taxes on workers.
   Such a distribution of profit will correspond to the equilibrium of firms, when state
regulation sets the wage rate for the production of a product unit W at the level
F'(L*)=E'(L*) and consider employers and workers as economically independent
entities.
   Then the functions F(L) and E(L) belong not to one, but to different economic
entities. The interaction of the participants in the economic system of the household-
firm is carried out through the wage rate W (which determines in Fig. 2 the angle of
inclination of the tangent to the curves).
   So, when W*=F'(L*)=E'(L*) firms solve their independent task:

                               F ( M )  W   M  max,                                (2)
                                                     M 0
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and households solve their independent task:

                                 W   L  E ( L)  max,                                     (3)
                                                     L0


and results coincide:
                                    M*(W*)=L*(W*).                                           (4)


                                                           F(L)
                                               А

                                                            E(L)
                                               В

                                               С



                   0 L0                       L*                    Ln     L
 Fig. 2. Optimization of the wage rate from the point of view of the state and determination of
                              the optimal amount of employment.

Namely, what amount of labour resources will be most advantageous for firms, it is this
amount that is most advantageous to provide to households. Thus, in the state of
equilibrium, the condition of optimality of the whole system is fulfilled.
   It is clear that at any other wage rates W≠W* the amount of attracted labour can only
decrease in compare to the equilibrium (and optimally from the point of view of the
system as a whole) L*(W*)=M*(W*), since it is defined as min{L*(W*), M*(W*)} and a
“bottleneck” will be created either because of a lack of demand at L*(W*)>M*(W*)
(when the wage rate is overvalued compared to W*), or because of the lack of an offer
for L*(W)0 and F''(L2)<0,                       E ( L2 )  F ( L 2 ) , that is             L2  L* ,   because
      *         *
E ( L )  F ( L ).
   Second derivative

                 d 2 P2 / ( dL2 ) 2  2 F ( L2 )  ( L2  L0 )  F ( L2 )  E ( L2 ) .                  (11)

    Here, F''(L2)<0,  E ( L2 )  0 , F''(L2) < 0, –E''(L2) < 0, L2–L0>0, that is, if F'''(L2)<0,
the second derivative is negative and with the employment L2 and wage rate W=F'(L2)
maximizes the income of workers. In comparison with the equilibrium W*, the wage
rate is optimal from the point of view of the worker, the corresponding increase (and
theoretically the most favorable at this rate) is the increase in the amount of labour
attraction Lu, but the use of labour resources L2, on the contrary, decreases even
compared with L* (not to mention Lu) because of the reduction in demand in the context
of the increased use of labour by firms.
    The total profit of the system thus decreases (A2C2BC). Note that even when the establishment
of the wage rate is the prerogative of trade unions (not the state and not employer-
firms), this rate does not increase infinitely, but determined by its optimum value,
taking into account labour demand.
    However, when F'''(L2)>0 it is possible that the second derivative at point L2 is
positive, that is, the amount of the employment income of workers will reach not the
maximum, but the minimum. This situation will be due to the high elasticity of the
function F(L), even if the insignificant growth of the wage bill significantly affects the
employability of firms.
    Thus, the overestimation of wage rates by trade unions leads to unemployment (in
the amount of L*–L2, which can lead to an increase in the rate of natural unemployment),
increase in prices and decrease in production and services, reduce of tax revenues (at a
rate in percentage of the difference between the AC–A2C2) and the increase in budget
expenditures for social assistance to the unemployed, which leads to a budget deficit.
    Unprofitable and lowering of wage rates than W*, as then the total profit of firms and
the share of workers in its distribution will decrease.
    Consider now the case where the wage rate is set not by the state and not by trade
unions, but by employers-firms, based on the interests of their own profits:
                                                                                                               (12)

                    P1 ( M ,W )  F ( M )  W  M  max , 0  M  L (W ). (12)
                                                              M ,W  0


   Here the condition M  L (W ) makes the problem non-trivial; otherwise it would
be possible to reduce the wage rate W to zero, unlimited increase in the demand for
labour resources M and, accordingly, profit P1(M, W). By virtue of this condition, the
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demand should not exceed the possible supply of labour, which is reduced with the
reduction of the wage rate. Thus, a joint optimization of the values of these parameters
is required – wage rates and the amount of employment of labour resources.
    According to Fig. 4 (for the unity of designations we will switch for employers to
the variable L), the employer’s profit is

                                        P1  A1 B1  A1G1  B1G1                                              (13)

  Since
   A1G1  F ( L1 ) , B1G1  B1 E1  E1G1 ,               B1 E1  DE1  tg (B1 DE1 )  ( L1  L0 )  E ( L1 ) ,
E1G1  F ( L0 ) , then

                       P1  F ( L1 )  ( L1  L0 )  E ( L1 )  F ( L0 )  max .                             (14)
                                                                                     L1


Hence the necessary condition for extreme:

                    dP1 / dL1  F ( L1 )  ( L1  L0 )  E ( L1 )  E ( L1 )  0,                         (15)

                               F ( L1 )  ( L1  L0 )  E ( L1 )  E ( L1 ) .                             (16)


                                                                              F(L)

                                                         А
                                                 А1
                                                                       E(L)

                                                         В
                                                   В1
                                                         С
                       D                           С1
                                       Е1
                                                G1
                    0 L0                       L1 L*            Lе                        Ln    L
             Fig. 4. Optimization of wage rates from the point of view of employers.

Since    L1–L0>0         and      E''(L1)>0,        F ( L1 )  E ( L1 ) ,    that       is   L1  L* ,   because
     *          *
E ( L )  F ( L ).
  The second derivative is

                    d 2 P1 /(dL1 ) 2  F ( L1 )  ( L1  L0 )  E ( L1 )  2E ( L1 ).                  (17)
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Here F''(L1)<0, L1–L0>0, E''(L1)>0, and if E'''(L1)>0, then the second derivative is
negative and at the level of employment L1 and the wage rate W  E ( L1 ) the maximum
profit of employers is reached.
   Compared to the equilibrium W*, the wage rate optimal from the point of view of
firms decreases, desirable (theoretically the most favorable at this rate) demand for
labour Lе increases, but the volume of supply L1 decreases even compared with L* (even
say nothing of Lе) due to the reduction of the attractiveness of work among the workers.
   At the same time, the aggregate profit of the system is decreasing (A1C1 0, F'''(L) < 0.




                *
               L




                L1

                L2


                L0

                0 W(0)      W(L0) W(L1)      W* F(L2) F(L0)    F(0)    W
    Fig. 6. Dependence of the employment rate on the wage rate at W'''(L) < 0, F'''(L)> 0.

Thus, the level of employment is adversely affected by both too low wages and too
high. For the effective functioning of the firm-household system (which will be
characterized not only by the highest employment but also by the maximum total net
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income and, accordingly, the maximum tax revenues in the state budget) it is necessary
to set the optimal salary W*.
   Inside the system it is fundamentally impossible to establish the optimal wage level
W*, in which unemployment will be the smallest. Such a level of remuneration can only
be established by a non-systemic body, whose interest will be the effectiveness of the
system as a whole. This is a general theoretical conclusion regarding any such systems
with a dual (affiliate and antagonistic) character of the relations of the participants.
   An important feature of our system of firm-household is the presence of the body
(the state), which direct interest is precisely to maximize the financial result of the
system (the tax base).


3      Conclusions

So it is the state, from the height of its point of view, have to direct the actions of the
opposing economic forces into the best point of optimum. With the help of state
regulation of wage rates, not only the maximum replenishment of budget taxes is
achieved, but also the maximum employment. By the influence on the system of the
firm-household, the state, having established wages at W* level, achieves the best
conditions for the development of the national economy, namely, the maximum profit
of the aggregated system of the firm-household, and therefore the maximum national
income, the maximum tax revenues to the budget and the maximum level of
employment, and hence the high level of solvent demand of households, the maximum
effect of the interaction of the participants of the system, and therefore the achievement
of economic growth of the economy.
   It has been established that the maximum tax base and the highest level of
employment are achieved simultaneously, with the same optimal level of remuneration.
The achievement of any of these two possible state objectives (the maximum tax base
or the highest level of employment) is fundamentally impossible without the
achievement of the other (even if you want to). None of these goals can be achieved
separately from the other.


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