A minimum wage set above the equilibrium wage
A) decreases the deadweight loss in the market.
B) decreases the workers' surplus because workers must spend resources looking for jobs.
C) increases the firm's surplus.
D) increases the market's efficiency.
E) has no effect on the market.
B
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Which of the following is not a limitation of the Pareto criteria?
a. Almost any policy change will make at least one person worse off. b. The status quo is lent legitimacy from being the starting point for evaluating social welfare. c. The criteria cannot tell us if a particular policy change will make all participants better off. d. The criteria do not allow for the ranking of all possible states of the world.
Which of the following statements concerning the supply of labor is true?
a. The wage rate has no effect on the supply of labor. b. The labor supply curve is downward sloping. c. The supply of labor is determined by the prevailing wage rate. d. The typical labor supply curve is upward sloping.