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Marginal factor cost (MFC)
The extra cost of hiring one more worker. In a competitive labor market it is simply the wage. For a monopsonist it is higher than the wage, because hiring one more means raising the pay of everyone already employed.
Also called: MFC, marginal resource cost
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