Inequality is often the result of higher levels of work and productivity
a. True b. False
a
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A compensating wage differential is a wage premium paid in order to:
A) recognize a more efficient employee. B) attract workers who have a family to support. C) improve the goodwill of a firm hiring workers. D) attract workers to otherwise undesirable occupations.
Which of the following is true for a monopolist?
A) Being the only seller in the market, the monopolist faces the market demand curve. B) Being the only seller in the market, the monopolist faces a perfectly elastic demand curve. C) Being the only seller in the market, the monopolist faces a downward-sloping demand curve that lies below the marginal revenue curve. D) Being the only seller in the market, the monopolist faces a perfectly inelastic demand curve.
Which one of the following states a central element of the economic way of thinking?
a. Scarce goods are priceless. b. Incentives matter--human choice is influenced in predictable ways by changes in personal costs and benefits. c. The realism of the assumptions is the best test of an economic theory. d. When deciding how to allocate time, the concept of opportunity cost is meaningless.
Costs that remain the same no matter what changes occur in usage or sales are
a. variable costs b. semivariable costs c. fixed costs d. indirect costs e. hidden costs