Consider an employee with a reservation wage of $6 an hour. The employee chooses an effort level between zero and one. Which of the following statements regarding her best response curve is correct? The best response curve describes the effort that the employee would choose for each level of the hourly wage. The best response curve is upward-sloping and convex. O The curve crosses the horizontal axis at the origin. The average effort per dollar is increasing in wages.

Consider an employee with a reservation wage of $6 an hour. The employee chooses an effort level between zero and one. Which of the following statements regarding her best response curve is correct? The best response curve describes the effort that the employee would choose for each level of the hourly wage. The best response curve is upward-sloping and convex. O The curve crosses the horizontal axis at the origin. The average effort per dollar is increasing in wages.

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