Increasing Marginal Returns to Labor

question 271

Multiple Choice

Increasing marginal returns to labor

• A) occur when a particularly efficient worker is employed.
• B) describe the portion of a total product curve where the marginal product is negative.
• C) mean that two workers produce less than twice the output of one worker.
• D) are the result of specialization and division of labor in the production process.
• E) occur only when there are increasing marginal returns to capital.

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Definitions:

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