Microeconomics For Today (MindTap Course List)
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ISBN: 9781305507111
Author: Irvin B. Tucker
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 11, Problem 15SQ
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Reason that the Marginal Factor Cost curve of monopsonist lies above the supply curve.
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Which of the following is characteristic of a labor market that is a monopsony?
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The supply curve for labor lies above the marginal resource cost curve of the firm.
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The type of labor available is relatively mobile from one industry to another.
The firm's employment is a small portion of the total employment of that type of labor.
The wage rate the firm must pay varies directly with the number of workers it employs.
The more elastic the labour supply is, the smaller the wage paid by a monopsonist.
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A monopsonist's demand for labor can be written as VMPE = 40 – 0.005ED. Labor is supplied to the firm according to w = 5 + 0.01ES. Thus, the firm's marginal cost of hiring workers when it hires off of this supply schedule is MCE = 5 + 0.02ES.
A. How much labor does the monopsony firm hire and at what wage when there is no minimum wage?
B. How much labor does the monopsony firm hire and at what wage when it must pay a minimum wage of $25?
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