A monopsonist's wage cost in hiring an additional worker is the:

A. worker's wage rate.
B. worker's wage rate plus the wage increases paid to all workers already employed.
C. worker's wage rate adjusted for the lower price that must be charged for the extra output.
D. marginal wage cost less the wage rate.


Answer: B

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