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

3.5.3 Wage determination

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

What's on this sheet

  1. Competitive labour markets
  2. Non-competitive labour markets
  3. The national minimum wage (NMW)
  4. Worked example
  5. Other effects of a NMW
  6. Classic question: should the national minimum wage be raised?
  7. Side 2: practice tasks, where the marks go, and exam-style questions
  8. Separate answer key

The lesson in seven steps

  1. Minimum wage: jobs lost or gained?
  2. Why are they paid more (or less)?
  3. Who wins, who loses?
  4. Wage trainer
  5. Floors and bargaining
  6. Build the chain
  7. Exam practice

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