Consider the labor situation in countries I and II in a two-country world with the marginal Physical product schedules MPPLI (= demand for labor schedule DI) for country I and Marginal physical product schedule MPPLII (= demand for labor schedule DII) for country II shown in the graph below (where the vertical axes also represent real wages) :
Without any migration of labor between the two countries, the labor force is 0L1 in country I and (in the leftward direction) 0'L1 in country II. If labor is now allowed to flow freely between the two countries, labor would migrate __________. As a result of the migration, world output would increase by the amount of triangle __________.
A) from country I to country II; CBA
B) from country I to country II; FBA
C) from country II to country I; CFA
D) from country II to country I; CBA
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