If the wage rate rises, then the firm's long-run marginal costs change, which in turn affects the firm's output level and its employment of labor. This phenomenon is known as

a. the substitution effect.
b. the scale effect.
c. the regressive-factor effect.
d. the factor-price effect.

b. the scale effect.

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If the labor-force participation rate is 90% and the total population 16 years of age or older is 3 million people, the labor force is

A. 2,450,000 people. B. 2,700,000 people. C. 3,300,000 people. D. 3,900,000 people.

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