20 marks
Q9 Evaluate the economic case for state action in labour markets, as Mexico's government took in 2023, with a diagram.
Edexcel · 9EC0 / 8EC0 / WEC11–14
Labour market intervention comes up in 10 questions across the Edexcel A Level, AS and International A Level past papers (9EC0 / 8EC0 / WEC11–14), worth 129 marks between them. They run from 2020 to 2024 and appear on International A Level Unit 3.
Tariffs run from 1 to 20 marks. The commonest instructions are Evaluate (6), Identify (MCQ) (2), Analyse (1). Specification points covered: 3.3.5.2.
Q9 Evaluate the economic case for state action in labour markets, as Mexico's government took in 2023, with a diagram.
Q7(d) Analyse two labour market effects of raising garment workers' pay floor to 22 000 taka a month.
Q9 Evaluate policies to cut workers' geographical and occupational immobility, given Belgium's jobless and vacancy rates.
Q8 Evaluate the effects of capping pay, given Egypt's 2015 salary ceiling and the resulting banking resignations.
Q10 Evaluate the microeconomic consequences for one industry when a country lifts its minimum wage, as Greece planned in 2022.
Q5 Using a labour market diagram for British Columbia's 2021 minimum wage rise from $14.60 to $15.20, identify the most likely impact on retail shop assistants.
Q3 Using a labour market diagram for South African agricultural workers with a national minimum wage above equilibrium, identify the most likely impact.
Q10 Following South Africa's 2018 National Minimum Wage Act, evaluate with diagrams how a wage floor affects tourism firms and the people they employ.
Q5 Spain's minimum wage rose 22% in 2019; given an elasticity of demand for labour of -0.6, calculate the change in demand for these workers.
Q10 Malaysia lifted the minimum wage in garments and textiles from MYR1 000 up to MYR1 500 during 2018; evaluate gains for firms and workers, with diagrams.
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