wages-fund theory

wages-fund theory
noun

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wage fund, wages fund or wages-fund theory noun
The former theory that there is at any given time in a country a determinate amount of capital available for the payment of labour, therefore the average wage depends on the proportion of this fund to the number of people who have to share in it
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