Explain how each of the following events would affect wages in a particular labor market:

a. an increase in labor productivity in the market.

c. an increase in wages in another labor market that can be easily entered by workers in the first labor market.

d. an increase in the price of the good labor in the market produces.

2a. How can a supply curve for labor be backward bending?

b. Suppose the equilibrium wage occurs in the downward-sloping portion of the curve. How would an increase in the demand for labor in the market affect the wage? How would this affect the quantity of labor supplied?