What is the income effect for leisure demand?
What will be an ideal response?
The change in leisure time resulting from a change in real income caused by a change in the wage rate. A higher wage increases the demand for all normal goods.
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In a production possibilities frontier graph, the cost of producing more units of a good is measured by the
A) dollar value of the additional output. B) area in the arc between the PPF and a straight line drawn between the starting point and the ending point. C) dollar value of the resources used to produce the good. D) amount of the other good or service that must be forgone. E) None of the above answers is correct.
Fred recently lost his job as a teller at the bank. The bank explained that they were replacing Frank and others with ATM machines. Fred falls into a category of unemployment known as
A) frictional unemployment. B) structural unemployment. C) cyclical unemployment. D) seasonal unemployment.
Suppose that policymakers are considering placing a tax on either of two markets. In Market A, the tax will have a significant effect on the price consumers pay, but it will not affect equilibrium quantity very much. In Market B, the same tax will have only a small effect on the price consumers pay, but it will have a large effect on the equilibrium quantity. Other factors are held constant. In
which market will the tax have a larger deadweight loss? a. Market A b. Market B c. The deadweight loss will be the same in both markets. d. There is not enough information to answer the question.
Country A has twice as many workers as Country B. Country A also has twice as much physical capital, twice as much human capital, and access to twice as many natural resources as Country B. Assuming constant-returns to scale, which of the following is higher in Country A?
a. both output per worker and productivity b. output per worker but not productivity c. productivity but not output per worker d. neither productivity nor output per worker