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As oil prices rises an increase in demand for geologist occurs. Geologist study rocks and how they are formed. Oil companies use geologist to find oil and gas beneath the earth. Currently, there are not enough geologists to fill all the jobs in the oil industry. What will happen to the wage of geologist?

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Answer:

the wage will increase

Step-by-step explanation:

the relationship between supply and demand is pretty straight forward, if there is low supply, i.e. not enough geologists, and high demand, i.e. oil industry needs geologists, then the value of the geologists increases because the oil companies will compete to see who can hire them, a simpler way to think about it is if 2 companies need a geologist, and only 1 is available, the two companies have to compete for the 1 worker, thus they each one may keep increasing their offer to get the employee to join their company, offering more money, better benefits, etc, conversely, if there are way more geologists than then there are jobs available, the value of the geologist will decrease, companies may be able to offer less money for the job because the geologists will have to compete with other geologists to get a job, the supply is greater than the demand

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