a) Maintain the assumption that firms can not price discriminate in the input market and fill in the firm's Marginal Cost (MC) table. b) How many workers will the monoposonist hire and what would the wage be? How many workers would have been hired and at what wage if this were a perfectly competitive market? c) Suppose now the province introduces a new minimum wage policy which sets the minimum wage at $6. Fill in the monopsonist's supply and marginal cost tables with the minimum wage. d) What will happen to the number of workers hired with the introduction of this minimum wage?

a) Maintain the assumption that firms can not price discriminate in the input market and fill in the firm's Marginal Cost (MC) table. b) How many workers will the monoposonist hire and what would the wage be? How many workers would have been hired and at what wage if this were a perfectly competitive market? c) Suppose now the province introduces a new minimum wage policy which sets the minimum wage at $6. Fill in the monopsonist's supply and marginal cost tables with the minimum wage. d) What will happen to the number of workers hired with the introduction of this minimum wage?

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Chapter1: Making Economics Decisions

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