If input supply is elastic an increase in demand leads to a large increase in hiring (N* to NE) but only a modest increase in the wage (W* to WE)

    Elastic supply means that new workers can easily enter the occuption already equipped with the appropriate skills, thus the need to increase wages only slightly to obtain a large increase in quantity supplied.

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