Hooterville's Chamber of Commerce has been successful in its campaign to attract manufacturing firms ("Locate here, we give a hoot!") and the community has experienced an increased average wage rate. Why?

a. The new firms like residents of Hooterville.
b. Labor costs more in other communities.
c. Hooterville has a nice train station.
d. The supply of labor has changed.
e. The demand for labor has changed.

E

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