A. Increase the budget surplus
B. Increase the balance of payment deficit
C. Reduce interest rates
D. Reduce government expenditure
Labour Market
According to the Office of National Statistics UK, a husband who chooses to stay home and take care of household is ?
A. Employed
B. Not in the labour force
C. A discouraged worker
D. Unemployed
Refer to Figure 1. The unemployment rate is ?
A. 3.2 Percent
B. 5.7 Percent
C. 5.8 Percent
D. Not Enough
A minimum wage law tends to ?
A. Help all teenagers because they receive a higher wage than they would otherwise
B. have no impact on unemployment as long as it is set above the competitive equilibrium wage
C. Create more Unemployment is high-skill job markets than in low-skill job markets
D. Create more unemployment in low-skill job markets than in high-skill job markets
If, for any reason the wage is held above the competitive equilibrium wage?
A. The quantity of labour supplied will exceed the quantity of labour demanded and there will be Unemployment
B. Unions will likely Strike and the wage will fall to equilibrium
C. The quantity of labour demanded will exceed the quantity of labour supplied and there will be a labour shortage
D. The quality of workers in the applicant pool will tend to fall
Which of the following government policies would fail to lower the unemployment rate ?
A. Establishing worker training Programs
B. Establishing right-to-work laws
C. Reducing unemployment benefits
D. Establishing employment agencies
E. Raising the minimum wage
Which of the following is an example of a reason why firms might pay efficiency wages ?
A. At equilibrium wages workers sleep when the boss is not looking because workers are not deeply concerned about being fired
B. At equilibrium wages workers often quit to find better jobs.
C. At equilibrium wages only minimally qualified workers apply for the job
D. At equilibrium wages, workers cannot afford a healthy diet so they fall asleep at work due to a lack of energy
E. All of these answers
Union might increase efficiency in the case Where they ?
A. Raise the wage for insiders above the competitive equilibrium
B. Lower the wage of local outsiders
C. Offset the market power of a large firm that is the dominant employer in a region
D. Threaten a strike but don’t actually follow through so there are not lost hours of work
Unions tend to increase the disparity in pay between insiders and outsiders by ?
A. increasing the wage in the Unionized sector, Which may create a decrease in the supply of workers in the non-unionized sector
B. Increasing the demand for workers in the Unionized sector
C. decreasing the demand for workers in the Unionized sector
D. Increasing the wage in the Unionized sector which may create an increase in the supply of workers in the non-unionized sector