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Draw the new (after-tax) demand curve in terms of the employee wage. How will this tax affect the wage of lifeguards and the number employed as lifeguards?
The marginal revenue product of labor at the local sawmill is MRPL = 20 - 0.5L, where L = the number of workers. How many workers will the mill hire?
If the Tennessee study can be generalized, what is the marginal product of labor (MPL) of these two additional teachers?
Use the theory studied in this course to analyze how wage subsidies to employers are likely to affect employment levels in France.
How will these changes abroad affect labor market outcomes for workers in the apparel and retailing industries in the United States? Explain.
What effect would this policy have on the employment of unskilled illegal immigrants? What effect would it have on the demand for skilled native labor?
What would be the effect on the wage rate women received? What would be the effect on the net wage employers paid?
Years ago, Great Britain adopted a program that placed a tax-to be collected from employers-on wage. Discuss the wage and employment effects of this tax policy.
Why would you expect to see any differences in the technologies used to perform these tasks? Explain.
What aspects of each alternative must be taken into account when analyzing the possible employment effects of the two approaches to safety?
Why does this mean that keyboarding jobs in the United States will be lost to India? Explain.
Calculate the number of adults who are in the labor force and the number of adults who are unemployed. Calculate the labor force participation rate.
What are the equilibrium wage and employment levels in this market? Plot the new supply curve, and find the new wage and employment level.
Suppose that the adult population is 210 million, and there are 130 million. Calculate the unemployment rate and the labor force participation rate.
Analyze how the war affects the supply curve and the demand curve for military personnel.
How does economic growth affect the demand curve for labor? What would this fact tell us about the reasons for the relatively faster job growth in Canada?
This device does not improve the efficiency with which punch presses operate. What does this requirement do to the demand curve for labor? Explain.
Analyze the immediate labor market outcomes for sweatshop workers in these countries using supply and demand curves to illustrate the mechanisms driving.
While management cannot pay below that rate, management does have the right to decide how many workers to hire.
Analyze what would happen to employment and wages in the banana farming industry in Ecuador. Use supply and demand curves in your analysis.
What definition of overpaid would you apply in this situation, and how would you identify whether arc welders are, in fact, overpaid?
Suppose a particular labor market were in market-clearing equilibrium. What could happen to cause the equilibrium wage to fall?
What is the cross-wage elasticity of demand for assistant bakers in case? Are assistant bakers and dough-making machines gross substitutes or gross complements?
Which union faces the more elastic demand curve? Which union will be more successful in increasing the total income (wage times person-hours) of its membership?
Draw a graph to show what has happened, and estimate the effects on employment in the fast-food sector.