Frictional unemployment depends on _____
a. the age distribution of the population
b. the years of work experience of the population
c. the education level of the female population
d. the ethnicity of the male population
a
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The bulk of the decline in the natural rate of unemployment from 1980 to 2000 is because of
A) a decline in the inflation rate. B) a decline in the share of young workers in the labor force. C) increased competition from foreign workers. D) the depreciation of the dollar relative to foreign currencies.
In the simple accelerator theory an increase in expected sales will
A) lead to an increase in net investment. B) not necessarily lead to an increase in net investment. C) lead to an immediate increase in replacement investment. D) lead to an increase in net investment in the following period.
Government regulation can improve economic efficiency if _____
a. regulators encourage uncompetitive markets to act competitively b. regulators have private information firms do not have c. regulators are able to coordinate inter-industry actions to achieve efficiencies d. regulators base their actions on the revealed preferences of market participants
The marginal physical product of labor is defined as
a. a firm's total output divided by total labor input. b. the extra output produced by employing one more unit of labor while allowing other inputs to vary. c. the extra output produced by employing one more unit of labor while holding other inputs constant. d. the extra output produced by employing one more unit of capital while holding labor input constant.