TY - RPRT AU - Schlicht, Ekkehart TI - Economic Surplus and Derived Demand PY - 2006/Jun/ PB - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) CY - Bonn T2 - IZA Discussion Paper IS - 2159 UR - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp2159 AB - Most demand – especially labor demand – is derived from the demand for some other product. This note demonstrates that the usual analysis of economic rent, as typically explained for the case of consumers' surplus, carries over to the case of derived demand. KW - derived demand KW - indirect demand KW - consumers' surplus KW - economic rent ER -