There is a marginal product of labor of five when there are two workers in the factory compared to one.
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It may appear to an external observer that education has raised the marginal product of labor, without this necessarily being true.
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The primary concept is that there is exploitation towards a factor of production if it receives less than its marginal product.
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Models that assume perfect competition in the labour market, as discussed below, conclude that workers earn their marginal product of labour.
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It may appear to an external observer that education has raised the marginal product of labour, without this necessarily being true.
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The consumer products company has been getting rid of marginal products to concentrate on building global sales of its biggest brands.
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In other words, money flows from higher to lower marginal products until the increased investment equalises the return with that obtainable elsewhere.
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With a neoclassical production function with constant returns to scale, the interest rate, r, will equal the marginal product of capital per worker.
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The assumption of constant returns to scale facilitates the assumption of perfect competition which in turn implies that factors get their marginal products:
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First, the wage rate in a particular country can be shown graphical by looking at the marginal product of labor ( MPL ).