Specialization and trade should lead to individuals learning specific skills and earning a salary.
True or False
Specialization and trade should lead to individuals learning specific skills and a higher living standard.
True or False
(1) True
As per law of comparative advantage, when countries specialize in producing and exporting the goods in which they have comparative advantage, trade will be mutually beneficial and all the trading countries will gain in terms of higher quantity of the goods consumed compared to pre-trade consumption. Therefore employment will increase if workers learn specific skills.
(2) False
However, higher trade and higher income does not necessarily mean standard of living will increase.
Specialization and trade should lead to individuals learning specific skills and earning a salary. True or...
Specialization and trade allow individuals to consume beyond their production possibilities frontiers (this is true for individual people and individual nations)!!! For what types of goods/services do you think the U.S. has a comparative advantage and if the U.S. stopped trading with other nations, how would employment in these industries change?
Which of the following is true about specialization and trade? Select one: a. A country should specialize in and export the good for which it has comparative advantage b. A country should specialize in and export the good for which it has absolute advantage c. A country should specialize in and export the good for which it has both comparative and absolute advantage d. A country should specialize in and import the good for which it has absolute advantage e. A country should specialize in and...
1) True
2) False
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