What was the overall trend of U.S. union membership beginning the 1960s? What was the main reason behind that trend?
What will be an ideal response?
Since the 1960s, union membership in the United States has declined as a percentage of the labor force, reaching about 12 percent today. The absolute number of union members has also declined recently. The main reason for the decline in union membership is the decline in manufacturing employment, which has traditionally accounted for a large share of total union membership.
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Marginal social cost is equal to
A) the amount people who buy a product pay for another unit. B) whatever producers have to pay to produce output. C) the sum of marginal private cost and the marginal external cost. D) the average of marginal private cost and the marginal external cost. E) None of the above answers is correct.
Refer to Table 2-11. This table shows the number of labor hours required to produce a cell phone and a board foot of lumber in Estonia and Finland
a. Which country has an absolute advantage in the production of cell phones? b. Which country has an absolute advantage in the production of lumber? c. What is Estonia's opportunity cost of producing one cell phone? d. What is Finland's opportunity cost of producing one cell phone? e. What is Estonia's opportunity cost of producing one board foot of lumber? f. What is Finland's opportunity cost of producing one board foot of lumber? g. If each country specializes in the production of the product in which it has a comparative advantage, who should produce cell phones? h. If each country specializes in the production of the product in which it has a comparative advantage, who should produce lumber?
The classical dichotomy states that
A) money is superneutral. B) goods markets are separated from labor markets. C) demand is separate from supply. D) real markets determine nominal outcomes, not the reverse.
In September 1992, Great Britain changed its exchange rate system. How?
A) It abandoned the gold standard in favor of pegging to the U.S. dollar. B) It joined in with the new euro. C) It switched from an exchange rate peg to floating. D) It abandoned the sterling backing for the British pound.