Factor Markets

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The four principal classes of factors of production are: money, capital, land, and labor; money, capital, labor, and entrepreneurship; money, labor, land, and entrepreneurship; land, labor, capital, and entrepreneurship; land, labor, entrepreneurship, and money.

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land, labor, capital, and entrepreneurship

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Because it results from the demand for automobiles, the demand for automobile workers is a/an

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derived demand

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For a perfectly competitive firm in both the product market and the factor market, the demand curve for labor slopes downward due to

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diminishing marginal returns

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If marginal product is positive and falling as the firm hires more workers, then

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total product is rising at a decreasing rate

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Which of the following would shift the demand curve for labor to the right?
a decrease in the wage rate,
an increase in the wage rate,
an increase in labor productivity,
a decrease in the final price of the product produced,
a decrease in the availability of physical capital per worker

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an increase in labor productivity

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Suppose a firm produces coffee mugs in a perfectly competitive output market. Which of the following would shift the firm’s demand curve for labor to the left? an increase in the demand for mugs, a decrease in the price of mugs, an increase in the price of mugs, an increase in the availability of physical capital per worker

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a decrease in the price of mugs

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The supply curve for labor may shift to the left due to: an increase in wealth, an increase in the wage rate due to the income effect, a decrease in the wage rate due to the income effect, an increase in the wage rate due to the substitution effect.

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an increase in wealth

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Compared to a competitive labor market, a firm with monopsony power in the labor market would pay a

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lower wage rate and hire fewer workers

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If a former monopolist in the product market begins to face competition as firms enter the market, the firm’s demand curve for labor would

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become more elastic

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According to marginal productivity theory, a factor of production will be paid based on the

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increase in revenue generated by the last unit of the factor employed in the market