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Q2(b) Multiple choice on what affects labour supply (age distribution, economies of scale, profit maximisation or long-run average costs).
Edexcel · 4EC1
Labour market comes up in 15 questions across the Edexcel International GCSE past papers (4EC1), worth 68 marks between them. They run from 2019 to 2025 and appear on iGCSE Paper 1, iGCSE Paper 1R, iGCSE Paper 2.
Tariffs run from 1 to 9 marks. The commonest instructions are Identify (MCQ) (4), Assess (4), Draw/Diagram (3). Specification points covered: 1.2.5, 2.1.2.
Q2(b) Multiple choice on what affects labour supply (age distribution, economies of scale, profit maximisation or long-run average costs).
Q3(a) Multiple choice on what would reduce the supply of labour.
Q1(d) Name something that can affect labour supply.
Q3(c) Diagram question: show what lowering the retirement age does to a country's labour market.
Q3(e) Data response: what Dubai gains from a workforce heavily made up of migrant labour.
Q2(h) Data response: whether more qualified people always means more teachers.
Q3(c) Diagram question: show what raising the school-leaving age does to the labour market.
Q2(a) Multiple choice on what would raise the supply of labour.
Q3(e) Data response: whether machines as substitutes cut the demand for labour.
Q4(b) Data response: how greater occupational mobility affects labour supply.
Q3(c) Diagram question: show what raising the retirement age does to the labour market.
Q3(d) Data response: what mechanisation does to the demand for labour.
Q3(a) Multiple choice on what raises the supply of labour.
Q2(g) Data response: how New Zealand might ease its shortage of seasonal workers.
Q3(d) Data response: why Canadian firms struggled to recruit the workers they needed.
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