Resource Markets



1. The revenue added by the last worker hired is called the:
A. marginal physical product of labor.
B. marginal revenue product of labor.
C. wage rate.
D. marginal factor cost of labor.
E. marginal utility of labor.

2. The demand for labor slopes downward because:
A. additional workers are usually less skilled and thus deserve lower wages.
B. if another resource is fixed, hiring more workers eventually reduces output per hour worked.
C. higher wages generally generate more work effort.
D. as the relative price of capital falls, firms replace capital with labor.

3. If the last worker hired adds more to the firm's revenue than to the firm's cost:
A. hiring the last worker causes profits to rise.
B. hiring the last worker causes profits to fall.
C. the firm should stop hiring additional workers.
D. marginal resource cost is decreasing.
E. marginal resource cost is increasing.

4. A monopsony is a:
A. market with only one seller.
B. market with only one buyer.
C. market with only one product.
D. market that only employs one resource in its production process.
E. market that is protected by government regulation.

Use the graph below to answer question number 5 and 6



5. The firm will pay its workers a wage:
A. equal to H.
B. equal to G.
C. equal to F.
D. equal to E.
E. less than E.

6. Monopoly exploitation is measured by:
A. D - L.
B. H - E.
C. H - F.
D. H - G.
E. D - C.

7. Consider the following three statements:
I. A profit maximizing monopoly will employ labor and capital so that each resource price equals their marginal revenue product (MRPL = w and MRPK = i).
II. Wage discrimination reduces the inefficiency of a monopsonist.
III. A firm who hires labor such that VMP = MRP = MFC > w is a monopsonist.
A. all three statements are true.
B. all three statements are false.
C. I is false while II and III are true.
D. I is true while II and III are false.
E. II is true while I and III are false.

8. All profit maximizing firms will hire labor until:
A. MRP=MFC.
B. MRP=w.
C. VMP=MFC.
D. VMP=w.

9. A firm that is a price taker in the labor market will hire labor to the point where the wage rate equals labor's:
A. average output.
B. marginal revenue product.
C. average revenue product.
D. marginal factor cost.
E. marginal value product.

10. The ability to "exploit" labor is minimal when a firm:
A. has monopoly power.
B. is regulated by the government.
C. has monopsony power.
D. has vigorous competition in both the output and the labor market.
E. has substantial economies of scale in production.

11. Consider the following three statements:
I. A purely competitive firm's demand for a resource depends on the value of the marginal product generated by the resource.
II. Labor productivity depends on individual effort rather than on the technology used or the amounts of other resources employed.
III. The value of the marginal product of a resource is found by multiplying the resource's marginal physical product times its cost.
A. all three statements are true.
B. all three statements are false.
C. I is true while II and III are false.
D. II is false while I and II are true.
E. III is true while I and II are false.

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