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What would happen to the number of disabled people if Social Security disability payments were e subject to income taxes? Explain.
Discuss overall state of the economy, especially unemployment rate, and likelihood that individuals with disabilities will discriminated against in workplace?
How will financial institutions and other borrowers pay off the loans made to them by the Fed during the recession?
What impact do you think this change in the law had on (i) employment, (ii) the duration of unemployment, and (iii) the unemployment rate? Explain.
What members of Congress have the most to gain by passing laws that subsidize the purchase of homes by high-risk, low-income individuals?
What elements of the recession of 2007-2009 have led many observers to refer to it as the Great Recession? Do you think this title is warranted?
How well do movements in a stock price index (such as the DJIA or the S&P 500) predict ahead of time the beginning or end of each recession?
Why do politicians make a big deal over whether the economy is officially in a recession or an expansion?
Why is it important, both for the political process and for our understanding of the economy, for the NBER to resist the temptation to change.
Why are nations with large underground economies likely to be happier or unhappier than one would expect, given their measured levels of real per capita GDP?
Why would these environmental improvements likely be reflected in reported measures of well-being or happiness?
What impact does this hiring out of household tasks have on measures on GDP? Explain.
How does one determine what is a final good or service and what is a regrettable necessity or an intermediate good? In other word, where does one draw the line?
How do you explain the fact that in some countries there is widespread political support for government policies that expropriate resources.
Christopher bought a $125 ticket to attend Nickelback concert in Red Rocks. What is his opportunity cost of going to the Nickelback concert in Red Rocks?
If Nicaragua can produce with the same amount of resources twice as much coffee. Explain how Columbia could have a comparative advantage in producing coffee.
Derive the savings function. Derive the government expenditure and tax multiplier. Compute equilibrium income and consumption.
What does this imply about the labor-capital ratios used in production? Therefore, how do wages compare across countries?
In the poor country, there are 5,000 workers who are employed as customer service representatives at a wage rate of $10 per hour.
Which country has a comparative advantage in producing wheat? Why? What is the opportunity cost of wheat in each country?
What is the opportunity cost of bicycles in each country? What is the opportunity cost of refrigerators in each?
Using economic theory, analyze the effects on American employment levels in the burglar alarm industry. What factors make these effects larger or smaller?
where wages are roughly one-quarter of what they are in Texas. Use economic theory to analyze factors Company X will take into account when making its decision
Consider the effect of this increase on an unemployed job seeker. Using a job-search model, what is the effect on the probability of finding an acceptable job?
Graph this tax rate formula, and calculate the firm's critical value of layoff experience (lmin) and ceiling value of layoff experience (lmax).