A firm holds excess labor if it can reduce the amount of labor it employs and still produce the same amount of output.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
True
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The increase in the average unemployment rate in the 1970s was the result of
A) higher real wage rates. B) an increase in the birth rate in the early 1970s. C) repeated increases in the minimum wage. D) an increase in the birth rate in the late 1940s and early 1950s. E) the reduction of overly generous unemployment benefits in the 1970s.
Neither the demand nor the supply of sugar is perfectly elastic or inelastic. If the government imposes a 5 percent tax on sugar, the
A) price of sugar buyers pay falls by 5 percent. B) price of sugar buyers pay increases by less then 5 percent. C) price of sugar buyers pay does not change. D) quantity of sugar increases. E) price of sugar buyers pay rises by 5 percent.
After 1995 U.S. growth rate ________ and the European Rate ________
A) slowed down; speeded up B) speeded up; slowed down C) slowed down; slowed down D) speeded up, speeded up
The above figure shows the payoff to two airlines, A and B, of serving a particular route. If the two airlines must decide simultaneously, how many pure Nash equilibria are there?
A) 0 B) 1 C) 2 D) It cannot be determined.