A minimum wage law is a:

A. price ceiling.
B. price floor.
C. customary norm without legal structure or protection.
D. quantity restriction.


B. price floor.

Economics

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Which of the following is a fixed cost?

a. electricity b. worker bonuses c. mortgage on the building d. steel to produce refrigerators

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Refer to the below table and information. What is the marginal labor cost of the fourth worker?

In the table below, a monopsonist has the marginal-revenue-product schedule for labor given in columns 1 and 2, and the supply schedule for labor is given by columns 1 and 3.



A. $13

B. $15

C. $17

D. $19

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Using a broader measure of the unemployment rate where discouraged workers and part-time workers who wished to work full time were counted as unemployed, the BLS estimates the unemployment rate in August 2015 would have ________ compared to the

measured unemployment rate. A) barely changed B) decreased by less than 1 percentage point C) more than doubled D) increased by more than 7 percentage points

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