The individual firm in a purely competitive labor market faces:

A. a perfectly elastic labor supply curve and a downsloping labor demand curve.
B. a perfectly elastic labor demand curve and an upsloping labor supply curve.
C. labor demand and labor supply curves both of which are perfectly elastic.
D. a downsloping labor demand curve and an upsloping labor supply curve.


Answer: A

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