Economics - 4EC1 PearsonEdexcel

The Labour Market

Bayani Gaba-gaba

Behind every product on a shelf sits a market you rarely think about directly: the market for the people who made it. Businesses do not just buy raw materials and machinery, they buy labour, and like any other market, the labour market has its own demand, its own supply, and its own price, the wage rate.

In this lesson you will apply the demand and supply model you already know for goods to the market for workers, learn what makes the demand for labour rise or fall, what makes people willing to supply their labour, and how trade unions and government policy can push wages away from the level demand and supply alone would set. You will practise reading and describing labour market diagrams precisely, since this is exactly the skill Edexcel tests here.

Manufura

  1. Factors affecting the demand for labour: demand for the final product (derived demand), availability of substitutes including machines, productivity of workforce
  2. Factors affecting the supply of labour: population size, migration, age distribution of population, retirement age, school-leaving age, female participation, skills and qualifications, ability to move geographic locations or move to different types of employment
  3. Importance of the quantity and quality of labour to business
  4. Impact of education and training on human capital and quality of labour
  5. The use of labour market diagrams showing supply of labour, demand for labour, market equilibrium wage and quantity of labour (employment), and effect of shifts in demand for labour and supply of labour
  6. Trade union involvement in the labour market: impact of trade union activity to improve working conditions and increase wages

Takardar Darasi

A business that wants to expand production needs more than machines and materials; it needs workers. The labour market is where businesses (who demand labour) meet workers (who supply labour), and the price that clears this market is the wage rate - the amount paid to workers for their services over a period of time. Just as an unusually cheap smartphone attracts more buyers, an unusually high wage attracts more workers into a job; and just as a firm buys less of an input that becomes more expensive, a firm employs fewer workers at a higher wage.

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Nazarin Darasi

Barka da kammala darasi akan The Labour Market. Yanzu da kuka bincika mahimman raayoyi da raayoyi, lokaci yayi da zaku gwada ilimin ku. Wannan sashe yana ba da ayyuka iri-iri Tambayoyin da aka tsara don ƙarfafa fahimtar ku da kuma taimaka muku auna fahimtar ku game da kayan.

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  1. The demand for labour is described as a 'derived demand' because: A) It depends only on the wage rate B) It exists because of demand for the final product labour produces C) It is set entirely by government D) It never changes over time Answer: B
  2. Which of the following would shift the supply of labour curve to the right? A) A fall in the school-leaving age B) An increase in net migration into the country C) A rise in the retirement age being lowered D) A fall in female participation in the workforce Answer: B
  3. On a labour market diagram, the vertical axis shows: A) Quantity of labour B) The wage rate C) Total output D) The price of the final product Answer: B
  4. A trade union negotiates a wage above the market equilibrium. According to the basic labour market model, this is most likely to cause: A) A shortage of labour B) A surplus of labour (unemployment) C) No change in employment D) A fall in the wage rate Answer: B
  5. Which of the following is most likely to increase the demand for labour in a factory? A) A fall in consumer demand for the factory's product B) A rise in the cost of the machinery that substitutes for workers C) A fall in worker productivity D) An increase in the school-leaving age Answer: B

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