The Individual Firm Operating in a Perfectly Competitive Labor Market

question 303

Multiple Choice

The individual firm operating in a perfectly competitive labor market

• A) can hire more labor only by offering a higher wage.
• B) faces an inelastic demand for labor.
• C) will pay less to the additional labor employed.
• D) can buy all the labor it wants at the going market wage rate.

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