Suppose the wage rate in a certain industry rises, and firms hire fewer workers. The best explanation of this is that labor:
A. demand fell.
B. demand increased.
C. supply fell.
D. supply increased.
Answer: C
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A. rises and the CPI falls. B. rises and the CPI rises. C. falls and the CPI rises. D. falls and the CPI falls.
Value-added taxes (VAT) are very popular in the United States.
A. True B. False C. Uncertain
A "registration statement" is drawn up in the process of
A) preparing a private placement. B) requesting the waiving of a restrictive covenant. C) underwriting publicly-sold securities. D) listing the collateral on a loan.
Consider a consumer with preferences for consumption of a composite good (C) and leisure (L) given by the following utility function:
U(C,L) = 2C1/2 + L Denote the consumer's wage rate by w and total time available for labor and leisure is normalized to one. The price of consumption is one. Denote the amount of labor supplied as N, so that N + L = 1. The consumer also earns non-labor income ("allowance") of 0. a. Write out the budget constraint determining feasible allocations of leisure and consumption. b. Compute the optimal bundle of leisure and optimal bundle of consumption. c. Derive the consumer's labor supply function: N*(w, ). d. Determine the effect of increasing non-labor income on the supply of labor (that is, compute the relevant partial derivative). e. How does non-labor income affect the consumption of the composite good, C? f. Compute the effects of an increase in wage on consumption and labor supply. Is leisure a normal good?