In a competitive market, what determines the income a worker receives?

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In a competitive economy, a worker's earnings correspond to the marginal product of their labor, which is the additional output generated by employing one more unit of labor. Other factors like brain drain, marginal utility, or substitutability between labor and capital do not directly determine a worker's income.

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