Answer the following statements true (T) or false (F)
1. A monopsonist in the labor market tends to hire more workers than would be hired if the labor arket were purely competitive.
2. A monopsonist faces an upsloping supply curve of labor, but it could face a horizontal demand urve for its product in the output market.
3. A monopsonist in equilibrium will hire labor at a level where MRP = MRC > W.
4. An example of a monopsonist is a labor union whose members include all the workers in a
particular industry.
5. In the demand-enhancing union model, a union tries to increase the wage rate through such
actions that promoting the industry's product, or raising labor productivity.
1. False
2. True
3. True
4. False
5. True
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Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
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