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Question 1621 Labour Market

What effect does reducing involuntary unemployment have in terms of the production possibility frontier?

Correct answer A. It helps the economy move on to its production possibility frontier

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Question 1628 Labour Market

What effect does a minimum wage law tend to have?

Correct answer A. It creates more unemployment in low-skill job markets than in high-skill job markets

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Question 1630 Labour Market

What happens if, for whatever reason, the wage is kept above the competitive equilibrium wage?

Correct answer B. The quantity of labour supplied will exceed the quantity of labour demanded and there will be unemployment

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Question 1631 Basic of Economics

Inflation is:

Correct answer B. an increase in the overall price level

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Question 1633 Introduction To Economics

What does unemployment mean?

Correct answer C. At the going wage rate, there are people who want to work but cannot find work

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Question 1634 Labour Market

Which of these is a reason why a firm might choose to pay efficiency wages?

Correct answer E. All of these answers

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Question 1636 Labour Market

In which situation might a union actually improve efficiency?

Correct answer A. When it offsets the market power of a large firm that is the dominant employer in a region

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Question 1637 Introduction To Economics

Which of the following correctly defines opportunity cost?

Correct answer B. That which we forgo, or give up, when we make a choice or a decision

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Question 1638 Labour Market

How do unions tend to widen the pay gap between insiders and outsiders?

Correct answer C. By increasing the wage in the unionised sector, which may create an increase in the supply of workers in the non-unionised sector

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