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Revision: Labour Market Failure
21st April 2008
Markets fail when they do not reach an efficient and/or equitable outcome from society’s point of view. At AS level, you will have studied many examples of possible market failure ranging from the provision of public and merit goods through to externalities and the welfare consequences of monopoly power in markets. At A2 level, you are asked to explore some issues relating to labour market failure. This revision note flags up a few of them:
Revision note: Revision_Labour_Market_Failure.pdf
Geoff Riley
Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for over thirty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD conferences in the UK and overseas.