The Labor Demand Curve of a Purely Competitive Seller

question 57

Multiple Choice

The labor demand curve of a purely competitive seller

• A) slopes downward because the firm must lower price to sell more output.
• B) slopes downward because labor productivity increases as successive workers are hired.
• C) is perfectly elastic because the firm is hiring an insignificant portion of the total labor supply.
• D) slopes downward because the marginal product of successive workers declines.

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