In a coal-mining company town, one employer is the sole buyer of labor services. The labor supply
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a. Invert the labor supply curve so that the wage is expressed in terms of the quantity; then, graph the quantity of labor supplied at each possible wage.
b. Find the firm's marginal expenditure curve, and graph it.
c. Explain why the firm's marginal expenditure is higher than the labor supply curve at all possible hiring levels.
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