1, Wage determination in a monopsonistic labor market. A) Draw the demand, supply, and marginal resource cost curves for labor for a monopsonist operating in a perfectly competitive product market. Label your graph completely. B) Where does the marginal resource curve lie in relationship to the supply curve? Explain your answer. C) On a second graph similar to part A of this question, label the equilibrium wage and quantity if this firm were operating as firm in a competitive labor market (rather than a monopsonistic labor market) D) On a copy of the same graph, label the wage level the monopsonist would pay and the quantity of labor the monopsonist would hire. Why does the monopsonist choose that wage and quantity?

1, Wage determination in a monopsonistic labor market. A) Draw the demand, supply, and marginal resource cost curves for labor for a monopsonist operating in a perfectly competitive product market. Label your graph completely. B) Where does the marginal resource curve lie in relationship to the supply curve? Explain your answer. C) On a second graph similar to part A of this question, label the equilibrium wage and quantity if this firm were operating as firm in a competitive labor market (rather than a monopsonistic labor market) D) On a copy of the same graph, label the wage level the monopsonist would pay and the quantity of labor the monopsonist would hire. Why does the monopsonist choose that wage and quantity?

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