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Sure there is.
The market has X residents and Y available hours to be worked.
The program has an offer to buy labor at a quoted rate Z.
If the hours are filled by residents volunteering for them, the rate offered is enough. If the hours aren't being filled, the program will either raise the rate offered, or make the work a mandatory part of the residency program.
Just because it's a buyer's market, or you don't like the market, doesn't mean there isn't a market. Of course there is.
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That's where it ceases to be an actual market and starts to be like those third-world countries where negotiations are conducted in the knowledge that if the gov't doesn't like your price, they'll just take what you're selling and not pay at all.