The demand for labor is L= 4000 - 300w, where L is the number of workers demanded and w is the hourly wage rate. The supply of labor is L = 200w. The uquilibrium wage rate in this market is $ 8, and the oquilibrium quantity of labor is 1600 workers. (Entur your responses as integers.) A minimum wage law is passed that sets the minimum wage at $9 per hour. As a result, 1300 workers are demanded and 1800 workers are supplied, so unemployment is 500 workers. (Enter your reaponses as integers.) Do all workers benefit from the minimum wage law? No. because not everyone can find work at the higher wage. Which group of workers will have the least difficulty finding work at the minimum wage? Young and inexperienced warkers. O B. Low skiled workers. Highly oducated workers. XD. All of the above. The deadweight loss from the minimum wage law is ! (Enter your responae as an integer.)

The demand for labor is L= 4000 - 300w, where L is the number of workers demanded and w is the hourly wage rate. The supply of labor is L = 200w. The uquilibrium wage rate in this market is $ 8, and the oquilibrium quantity of labor is 1600 workers. (Entur your responses as integers.) A minimum wage law is passed that sets the minimum wage at $9 per hour. As a result, 1300 workers are demanded and 1800 workers are supplied, so unemployment is 500 workers. (Enter your reaponses as integers.) Do all workers benefit from the minimum wage law? No. because not everyone can find work at the higher wage. Which group of workers will have the least difficulty finding work at the minimum wage? Young and inexperienced warkers. O B. Low skiled workers. Highly oducated workers. XD. All of the above. The deadweight loss from the minimum wage law is ! (Enter your responae as an integer.)

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