Suppose that Home has 10% of the world's capital, 10% of the world's skilled labor, 40%...
Suppose that Home has 10% of the world's capital, 10% of the world's skilled labor, 40% of the world's unskilled labor, and produces 20% of the world's GDP. What does this information suggest about Home's resource endowments? Explain your answer.
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The information from the given data suggests that resource endowments of Home's have sufficient capital as Home's shares of the world's capital equals to the world's GDP. However, Home is abundant in unskilled labor and scarce in skilled labor because share of unskilled labor of worlds exceeds the Home's share of world's GDP while share of skilled labor of worlds is lesser to the Home's share of world's GDP.
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