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So now what happens when a competing firm starts "offering" artificially high salaries just to force the current employer's costs up?

tremon on Oct 26, 2016 [–]

Some workers will switch to the competing firm, causing pay disparity within that firm, which in turn might cause decreased worker productivity or brain drain.

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