An individual is induced to change his/her occupation if:
a. the sunk cost of the current occupation is high.
b. the expected net gains from the alternative occupation is negative.
c. the outlook for future income, in the current occupation, increases.
d. he/she has devoted a lot of money, time and effort in the current occupation.
e. the marginal cost of remaining in the current occupation is very high.
e
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The menu cost theory states that
A) wages depend on the productivity of workers. B) economic agents quickly learn the likely responses of the Fed to changes in unemployment. C) the economy is characterized by perfect competition. D) prices are not fully flexible because it is costly for firms to change prices every time there is a demand change.
Suppose there is a rise in the price level, but no change in the money wage rate. As a result, the quantity of labor demanded
A) increases. B) decreases. C) does not change because there is no change in the real wage rate. D) decreases only if the money wage rate also decreases.
If Sam is producing at a point on his production possibilities frontier, then he
A) cannot produce any more of either good. B) can produce more of one good only by producing less of the other. C) will be unable to gain from trade. D) is not subject to scarcity.
If the price elasticity of demand for smart watches is 1.4 (dropping the minus sign), then a 50 percent increase in the price of smart watches will lead to
A. the sale of 200 additional smart watches. B. the sale of 125 percent fewer smart watches than before. C. the sale of 70 percent fewer smart watches than before. D. the sale of 25 percent fewer smart watches than before.