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Minimum wage legislation requires most firms to pay workers no less than the legislated minimum wage per hour. Using marginal productivity theory, explain how a change in the minimum wage affects the employment of unskilled labor.

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In a competitive market factor payments are determined by the productivity of factors of production. Labor is no different. Labor payments, or wages, are determined by the productivity of labor. In a market economy the government can legislate a minimum wage, but they cannot legislate that companies have to hire! When governments change minimum wages they are not changing the productivity of labor.

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