In the above figure, if the government imposed a minimum wage of $8 per hour in this labor market, the increase in the hourly wage for those who are able to keep their jobs is

A) $2 per hour.
B) $4 per hour.
C) $6 per hour.
D) $8 per hour.

A

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Diminishing returns to labor occur for two primary reasons: 1) as we keep adding new workers, it becomes increasingly difficult to obtain productivity gains through additional specialization; and 2) each additional worker we add has less land and capital to work with

a. True b. False

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