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3.5 Labour market

Content

3.5.1 Demand for labour

Spec: what students need to learn

  • Factors that influence the demand for labour
  • Labour as a derived demand

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3.5.2 Supply of labour

Spec: what students need to learn

  • Factors that influence the supply of labour to an occupation
  • Market failure: geographical and occupational mobility and immobility

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3.5.3 Wage determination

Spec: what students need to learn

  • Diagrammatic analysis of labour market equilibrium
  • Current labour market issues
  • Government intervention: maximum and minimum wages, public sector pay setting, policies on labour immobility
  • Significance of the elasticity of demand for and supply of labour

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