SINCE 1828
wage-fund theory
noun
variants:
or wages-fund theory
Definition of wage-fund theory
: a theory in economics: there is at any one time a rigid capital fund available for wage payments, and increases in wage rates to any groups will only redistribute wage payments, not increase the aggregate of wages paid — compare iron law of wages, subsistence theory
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