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of individu-als is not a trivial task.Take a simpleexample:Two cars arrive at an inter-section.How should the drivers pro-ceed?In most countries,there arelights or stop signs to indicate who hasthe right of way.If such coordinationdevices did not exist,it would be muchharder to avoid situations where bothdrivers are stuck at the intersection andno one wants to move or,worse,wherethey simultaneously try going first.  \nIfit is not obvious how to coordi-nate the actions oftwo individuals ata crossroad.how hard must it be tocoordinate the actions of hundreds ofmillions of producers,consumers,andworkers in a large economy?Para-doxically,one of the most celebratedideas in economics—what Adam Smithcalled the invisible hand-tells us thatit is not hard at all:Market forces willguarantee an efficient allocation ofresources.  \nEconomic models demonstrate thevalidity of this result,but they assumethe presence of stylized markets.whichwork like organized exchanges (such asthe New York Stock Exchange)for allgoods and commodities.This assump-tion means that individuals in the mod-els are informed about all the pricesthat prevail in the economy and thatthey cannot affect prices individually.  \nWhile this is a useful abstraction,econ-omists recognize that most markets donot operate in this way.Several econo-mists have suggested that conditions inreal markets might prevent individualsfrom coordinating their decisions prop-erly.Consider,for instance.thelabormarket.It consists of many workerslooking for jobs and open jobs needing to be filled by workers,and these  \n# Coordination Failures in the Labor Market\n\nare matched together through a time-consuming and costly search process.It is rather difficult for a worker tolocate a suitable position and,recipro-cally,it is not always easy for firms tofind suitable unemployed workers forthejobs they make available.Further-more,workers and firms have only anincomplete knowledge of the prevail-ing wages-the price of labor--in theeconomy.And unlike in the stylizedmarket,individuals can affect prices;workers and firms can set the wagethrough bilateral negotiation.  \nBecause of such conditions,it is pos-sible for the labor market to wind up indifferent states.some being better fromsociety's perspective than others.Twoeconomies with the same technolo-gies and policies,for instance,couldachieve entirely different activity lev-els and unemployment rates.More-over,economic activity could fluctuateeven though the economy receives noshock.In this context.there may be aroom for some government interven-tion to help individuals coordinate on agood outcome,just like with the traficlights at the intersection.  \n## ■ When Do CoordinationFailures Arise?\n\nIn order to define situations with coor-dination failures,it is useful to con-sider a simple example.Take a team ofworkers with identical skills.Asstumethat the productivity of each individ-ual increases with the effort of his co-workers.Every worker chooses howintensely he will work,but his choiceis affected by his co-workers'levelof effort:If they work harder,he willincrease his own level of effort.(Theworkers'choices for how intenselythey will work in this case are said tobe complements.)  \nCan two countries,or twodifferent states,with similartechnologies,resources,andpolicies exhibit differences inlabor market performance?In contrast to a commonlyheld view,the answer is yesunder some conditions thatwe review in this Cmmen-tary.If these conditions aresatisfied,the unemploymentrate and the production of aneconomy can fluctuate even inthe absence of shocks.More-over,government interventioncan be useful if it coordinatesthe economy on the preferred  \nThe way a worker reacts to others'choices (his reaction fimction)isdepicted in figure 1 by the curved line.The curve specifies the level ofoneworker'seffort,e,for any level of hisco-workers'effort,e.This reactionfunction slopes upward,reflecting thefact that 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