Edexcel A Level · 9EC0 · Theme 3: Business behaviour and the labour market

3.5.2 Supply of labour

Everything you need for questions on supply of labour, in the words examiners reward. An interactive seven-step lesson goes with it.

What's on this sheet

  1. What affects labour supply to a job?
  2. Elasticity of supply of labour
  3. Shifts and elasticity
  4. Immobility of labour
  5. Classic question: will higher pay solve a shortage of workers?
  6. Side 2: practice tasks, where the marks go, and exam-style questions
  7. Separate answer key

The lesson in seven steps

  1. Recruit more nurses
  2. What happens to labour supply?
  3. How quickly do workers arrive?
  4. Labour supply trainer
  5. Pay, conditions and mobility
  6. Build the chain
  7. Exam practice

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