In a perfectly competitive labor market

a. all firms are wage takers
b. all firms are wage searchers
c. all firms sell their output at a constant price
d. none of the firms that demand labor can be monopolists
e. some firms may be able to influence the wage rate as long as most firms cannot


A

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