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The interaction of labour markets

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Question 8

The diagram below represents the labour market conditions in an industry where workers possess highly transferable skills and can easily move to other occupations at a constant reservation wage rate.

Labour market diagram with horizontal supply curves shifting downwards

Which of the following combinations of statements is correct if the supply of labour shifts from SL1S_{L1}SL1​ to SL2S_{L2}SL2​, resulting in a change in the labour market equilibrium from E1 E_1\,E1​ to E2E_2E2​?

Statement 1: Transfer earnings are unchanged; Statement 2: There is zero wage elasticity of supply of labour

Statement 1: Economic rent is unchanged; Statement 2: There is infinite wage elasticity of supply of labour

Statement 1: Transfer earnings are unchanged; Statement 2: There is infinite wage elasticity of supply of labour

Statement 1: Economic rent is unchanged; Statement 2: There is zero wage elasticity of supply of labour

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