Microeconomics 18th Edition by Campbell McConnell, Stanley Brue, Sean Flynn

Exercise 23

Describe wage determination in a labor market in which workers are unorganized and many firms actively compete for the services of labor. Show this situation graphically, using W 1 to indicate the equilibrium wage rate and Q₁ to show the number of workers hired by the firms as a group. Show the labor supply curve of the individual firm, and compare it with that of the total market. Why the differences In the diagram representing the firm, identify total revenue, total wage cost, and revenue available for the payment of nonlabor resources.