Unit 4: Labor and Efficiency: Resource Markets, Inequality, and Immigration

Lesson 13a: Wage Determination: Labor Markets

Key Graphs

 

Competitive Labor Market in a Competitve Product Market

 

Competitive Labor Market in an Imperfectly Competitive Product Market

Monopsony

Union: Increase Demand

 Union: Craft (Exclusive)

 Union: Inclusive (Industrial)

Union: Bilateral Monopoly

Minimum Wage Traditional Model:
employment decreases

Minimum Wage in a Monopsony:
employment increases

Does the Minimum wage help the poor?

YES if the demand for labor is inelastic because total income increases from 0ADF to 0BCE

 

Does the Minimum wage help the poor?

NO if demand for labor is elastic because total income decreases from 0adf to 0bce  

 

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Lesson 13a