Edexcel International · Unit 3: Business behaviour · 3.7 The labour market

Edexcel International Economics past paper questions: The labour market

Every Edexcel International question on The labour market from 2020 to 2025: 11 essays, 4 data response questions and 24 multiple choice questions. Each question links to its paper, mark scheme and examiner report.

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Essay questions on the labour market

A-level Unit 3, June 2025, Q8OptionalEvaluate20 marks

Evaluate measures that a government can use to protect employees and suppliers in a product market of your choice. Illustrate your answer with an appropriate diagram(s).

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A-level Unit 3, January 2025, Q8OptionalEvaluate20 marks

Evaluate the benefits of a monopsony to firms and consumers. Illustrate your answer with an appropriate diagram(s).

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A-level Unit 3, October 2024, Q9OptionalEvaluate20 marks

Evaluate the economic benefits of government intervention in labour markets. Illustrate your answer with an appropriate diagram(s).

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A-level Unit 3, June 2024, Q9OptionalEvaluate20 marks

Evaluate possible reasons for wage differentials in an occupation of your choice. Illustrate your answer with an appropriate diagram(s).

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A-level Unit 3, October 2023, Q9OptionalEvaluate20 marks

Evaluate policies that a government could use to reduce the geographical immobility of labour and the occupational immobility of labour. Refer to industries of your choice in your answer.

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A-level Unit 3, June 2023, Q8OptionalEvaluate20 marks

Evaluate the impact of imposing a maximum wage. Illustrate your answer with an appropriate diagram(s).

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A-level Unit 3, January 2023, Q9OptionalEvaluate20 marks

Evaluate the likely impacts of monopsony power on employees and suppliers. Refer to a firm with monopsony power in your answer.

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A-level Unit 3, October 2022, Q10OptionalEvaluate20 marks

Evaluate the likely microeconomic effects of an increase in the national minimum wage on an industry of your choice. Illustrate your answer with an appropriate diagram(s).

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A-level Unit 3, October 2021, Q10OptionalEvaluate20 marks

Evaluate measures to reduce the occupational and geographical immobility of labour.

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A-level Unit 3, January 2021, Q10OptionalEvaluate20 marks

Evaluate the likely microeconomic effects of the introduction of a national minimum wage on businesses and workers in the tourism industry. Illustrate your answer with an appropriate diagram(s).

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A-level Unit 3, January 2020, Q10OptionalEvaluate20 marks

Evaluate the benefits of an increase in the minimum wage on businesses and workers. Illustrate your answer with an appropriate diagram(s).

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Data response questions on the labour market

A-level Unit 3, January 2024, Q7(a)Calculate2 marks

Case study: Size of businesses and labour markets in Bangladesh

With reference to Figure 1 and Extract A, calculate the number of workers employed by SMEs in Bangladesh. You are advised to show your workings.

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Case study: Size of businesses and labour markets in Bangladesh

With reference to Extract B, examine the impact of rising energy costs on the profits of a garment manufacturer in Bangladesh. Illustrate your answer with an appropriate diagram.

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A-level Unit 3, January 2024, Q7(d)Analyse6 marks

Case study: Size of businesses and labour markets in Bangladesh

With reference to extract B, analyse two likely effects on the labour market for garment workers of the possible increase in the minimum wage to 22 000 taka.

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A-level Unit 3, January 2021, Q7(b)Explain4 marks

Case study: Tata Steel

Explain what is meant by the term 'monopsony employer' (Extract C, line 11).

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Multiple choice questions

A-level Unit 3, June 2025, Q3
Ceteris paribus, which one of the following is the most likely impact of this policy?
A-level Unit 3, January 2025, Q3
Which one of the following is most likely to cause the demand for labour to be inelastic?
A-level Unit 3, October 2024, Q5
Which one of the following is most likely to influence the elasticity of demand for agricultural labour?
A-level Unit 3, June 2024, Q6
Which one of the following is most likely to cause a decrease in the geographical mobility of labour?
A-level Unit 3, January 2024, Q5
Which one of the following factors is the most likely explanation of this elasticity of demand for construction workers?
A-level Unit 3, October 2023, Q1
Ceteris paribus, which one of the following might result from this fall in Japan's population of working age?
A-level Unit 3, January 2023, Q3
Which one of the following government measures is most likely to increase the occupational mobility of labour?
A-level Unit 3, January 2023, Q6
Which one of the following is the most likely reason for this value of the elasticity of demand for labour?
A-level Unit 3, October 2022, Q3
Which one of the following is most likely to have caused this fall in the supply of labour?
A-level Unit 3, June 2022, Q1
1 Ceteris paribus, which one of the following would reduce the geographical mobility of labour within a country?
A-level Unit 3, June 2022, Q5
Which one of the following would limit the impact of government intervention in the housing market?
A-level Unit 3, June 2022, Q6
Which one of the following combinations is the most likely impact of the introduction of this monopsonistic labour market? Wages Number of employees
A-level Unit 3, January 2022, Q4
Which one of the following was the most likely reason for these staff redundancies?
A-level Unit 3, January 2022, Q5
Which one of the following is the most likely impact of this increase in the minimum wage on shop assistants in the retail industry in British Columbia?
A-level Unit 3, October 2021, Q3
Which one of the following is the most likely impact of the introduction of the national minimum wage?
A-level Unit 3, October 2021, Q5
5 India's net migration was -2.7 million in 2017. This caused a decrease in the supply of labour. Which other factor would also cause a decrease in India's supply of labour?
A-level Unit 3, June 2021, Q4
4 Which one of the following will influence the elasticity of demand for labour?
A-level Unit 3, January 2021, Q1
1 Between 2009 and 2019 real house prices in Sydney, Australia rose by 40%. This price increase was more than in any other part of Australia. What might be the effect of this increase in house prices in Sydney on the mobility of labour?
A-level Unit 3, January 2021, Q4
Which one of the following would have caused the elasticity of the supply of labour to become more elastic?
A-level Unit 3, October 2020, Q3
3 Which one of the following is most likely to cause the supply of engineers to the aerospace industry to be inelastic?
A-level Unit 3, October 2020, Q5
5 In 2019 the minimum wage rate in Spain was increased by 22%. If the elasticity demand for labour currently earning the minimum wage is -0.6, then the demand for these workers will
A-level Unit 3, October 2020, Q6
Which one of the following would cause the increase in the wage rate from W to W1 as shown in the diagram?
A-level Unit 3, January 2020, Q3
Which one of the following can be deduced from the above information?
A-level Unit 3, January 2020, Q6
6 Which one of the following is most likely to cause the demand for labour to be elastic?

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