What this practice covers
These questions are drawn from past CIE 9708 papers and filtered to labour market forces and government intervention. You answer, you find out immediately whether you were right, and you get the reasoning for the correct option and for each distractor. Wrong answers go to a mistakes locker so you can come back to exactly those.
Practice is free. You need an account only so your progress and your mistakes are still there next time.
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What examiners see students get wrong here
These are the errors that cost marks on labour market forces and government intervention, taken from our own topic notes. Read them before you practise and you will recognise the traps in the questions.
- Asserting that a minimum wage always reduces employment without identifying market structure.
- Confusing marginal physical product with marginal revenue product.
- Drawing MCL below the supply curve for a monopsonist, or equal to it.
- Reading the monopsony wage off the MRPL curve rather than the supply curve.
- Saying diminishing returns begin where MRPL falls below the wage rather than where marginal product first falls.
- Treating the individual's backward bending supply curve as the market supply curve.
- Forgetting that demand for labour is derived, so a fall in product demand reduces labour demand regardless of the wage.
Revise it first
If any of the above is unfamiliar, work through the notes before practising: Labour Market Forces and Government Intervention revision notes.