A company can hire non-union workers, but a condition of their employment is that they must join the union within their first 90 days on the job. This is an example of a
A) right-to-work law.
B) closed-shop.
C) union shop.
D) voluntary craft union.
Answer: C
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(i) How many videos does Spencer rent each year? How much consumer's surplus does Spencer receive from renting videos? (ii) Blockpopper's starts a "frequent viewers" club. For a membership fee of $35 per year, club members can rent as many videos as they wish at the discounted price of $2 per rental. Should Spencer join the "frequent viewers" club? If yes, how much surplus value would Spencer receive as a club member? If no, what membership fee would Spencer be willing to pay to join the club?
(i) The accompanying diagram shows the effects of a tariff. Initially, the price is P0, domestic firms produce Q0 units, and Q1 - Q0 units are imported from foreign firms. When the tariff is imposed, the price increases to P0 + t.
How does the tariff affect consumers' surplus and producers' surplus? How much tariff revenue is collected by the government? Does imposing the tariff cause the country's social gain to rise or fall?
(ii) The situation in part i is known as the "small country" case-the country has no market power, so its tariff does not affect the world price P0. Now consider the "large country" case shown in the accompanying diagram-in this case, the country has market power, and the tariff (by reducing the demand for imports) causes the world price to fall from P0 to P1. So after the tariff is imposed, the domestic price is P1 + t.
How does the tariff affect consumers' surplus and producers' surplus in this situation? How much tariff revenue is collected by the government? When a "large country" imposes a tariff, will its social gain rise or fall?
Refer to the scenario above. Jack will derive ________ units of utility if both of them try to move the tree
A) 5 B) -5 C) -2 D) 10
The optimal quantity of pollution is: a. zero
b. the level where the marginal cost of pollution abatement exceeds the marginal benefit of pollution abatement by the greatest amount. c. the level where the marginal benefit of pollution abatement exceeds the marginal cost of pollution abatement by the greatest amount. d. none of the above.
When the Fed conducts open market operations, the impact of the buying or selling of bonds will include changes in
A) SRAS. B) interest rates. C) LRAS. D) a and b E) a, b and c