Applied to perfectly competitive labor markets, the marginal principle tells firms to hire workers until:

A. the marginal revenue product of the last worker hired equals the wage.
B. marginal productivity begins to diminish.
C. average total costs are minimized.
D. the price of the product equals the wage of the worker.


Answer: A

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