They may be unwilling to work at the conditions that are currently offered, but they may be willing to work at different conditions.
That likely brings us to improvements that are non-Pareto, hence rarely addressed in classical economics.
But even if employers could legally unilaterally change salaries
I was more thinking of government interventions like employment taxations.
Possibly, but it may also happen that the current issues are caused by coordination failures, which if solved could lead to Pareto improvements.
But even if there are no available Pareto improvements, it doesn’t imply that this is the best of all possible worlds.
Pareto improvements are not really a classical concept. I think Pareto used them, but it was the neoclassical Pigou or someone around that time who made them widespread.
That likely brings us to improvements that are non-Pareto, hence rarely addressed in classical economics.
I was more thinking of government interventions like employment taxations.
Possibly, but it may also happen that the current issues are caused by coordination failures, which if solved could lead to Pareto improvements.
But even if there are no available Pareto improvements, it doesn’t imply that this is the best of all possible worlds.
Pareto improvements are not really a classical concept. I think Pareto used them, but it was the neoclassical Pigou or someone around that time who made them widespread.