Employers engaging in ________ try to enhance their profits
A) psychological bias
B) moral discrimination
C) statistical discrimination
D) taste-based discrimination
C
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Refer to the above figure. Suppose the natural rate of unemployment is 5 percent. If the government tried to reduce unemployment to 4 percent and keep it there, it must
A) raise unemployment benefits. B) accept a permanent inflation rate of 1 percent. C) generate higher and higher inflation rates or else people will adjust their behavior and the unemployment rate will return to 5 percent. D) use contractionary fiscal and expansionary monetary policy.
A price support directly sets the
A) amount of production. B) subsidy the government must receive from producers. C) equilibrium quantity. D) lowest price for which the good may be sold. E) highest price for which the good may be sold.
When a good suddenly becomes more scarce in a free market, caused by a significant increase in consumer demand, then
A) it is a clear sign that households have become more greedy. B) the price will tend to rise rapidly in light of the greater scarcity. C) suppliers will gain in the exchange and buyers will lose. D) the law of demand will be contradicted because people will be buying more, not less, at a higher price. E) all of the above are true.
A market structure in which the decisions of individual buyers and sellers have no effect on market price is
A. a long-run industry. B. a market supply industry. C. perfect competition. D. a short-run industry.