Suppose that a mining company employs 80% of the available laborers in a town. Explain what will happen to the number of laborers hired and the wage rate paid by the mine if a minimum wage is set at the competitive level
What will be an ideal response?
The mine was operating as a monopsony. The competitive minimum wage will result in the mine hiring a competitive level of laborers at the higher competitive wage.
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A) $8,000. B) $10,000. C) $50,000. D) $100,000.
The total cost function is TC = Q3 - 6Q2 + 14Q + 75. When does diminishing returns to production set in?
What will be an ideal response?
If the unemployment rate rose from 6 percent to 7 percent,
A. Cyclical unemployment went up by more than 1 percent. B. Cyclical unemployment went up by 1 percent. C. Cyclical unemployment went up by less than 1 percent. D. Cyclical unemployment stayed the same. E. Cyclical unemployment went down.
The figure above shows the market for milk in Cowland. A subsidy paid to producers of $1 per gallon of milk is introduced. If there are no external costs and no external benefits, the marginal benefit of the last gallon of milk consumed is
A) $3.50 a gallon. B) $4.00 a gallon. C) $4.50 a gallon. D) $5.00 a gallon.