5. When the ticket price of going to a rock concert increases to $200, then the typical California teenager will consume less because many of them earn the minimum wage of $12.00 per hour. This microeconomic reaction describes:
A) The cost effect.
B) The inflationary effect.
C) The income effect.
D) The substitution effect.
When price of rock concert increases to $200 , then the typical California teenager will consume less because minimum wage is $12 per hour. This microeconomics reaction describes the income effect because the change in consumers demand for rock concert depends on what income they earn. As their minimum wage is not that much , so increase in price decreases the demand for rock concert . Hence,option(C) is correct.
5. When the ticket price of going to a rock concert increases to $200, then the...
7. In Vancouver Sun newspaper, several fans and rock stars, were complaining the high price of concert tickets. One rock star argued, "It just isn't worth $75 to see me play. No one should have to pay that much to go to a concert." Assume this star sold out arenas around the country at an average ticket price of s75. a. How would you evaluate the arguments that ticket prices are too high? b. Suppose that due to this star's...
1. The reservation wage likely increases when A. the price of consumption increases. B. the wage increases. C. the price level (of consumption and wages) increases. D. non-labor income increases. E. one is a discouraged worker. 2. Due to the added worker effect, the labor force participation rate A. increases during a recession. B. decreases during a recession. C. a fairly useless statistic. D. over-counts the number of workers wanting a job. E. over-counts the number of workers with a...
Labor Economics
9. Phil's wage increases and Phil responds by working more hours. Which of the following could explain this? a. Phil's substitution effect is larger than his income effect b. Phil views leisure as an inferior good. c. Phil's income effect is larger than his substitution effect d. Both b and c f. Phil died, but was brought back to life with an alien serum in a plot twist no one saw because they gave up after episode 5....
Labor Economics, multiple choice questions
1. In the leisure-income model, the wage constraint shows a. the points that maximize a worker's utility b. all points that are equally preferred c. the wage rates that affect work decisions d. the available combinations of leisure and income 2. The slope of a wage constraint reflects the: a. rate at which a person is willing to substitute leisure for income c. income effect b. price of leisure d. substitution effect 3. When a...
Dan Price, the founder of Gravity Payments, a small, privately owned company that provided high-service and low-cost credit card processing, surprised his 120-person staff when he announced that over the next three years he would raise the salary of all employees, even the lowest paid clerk, customer service representative, and salesperson, to a minimum of $70,000. The average annual salary at that time at Gravity was around $48,000, so the increase would nearly double some employees’ salaries. Price explained that...
1). The retirement benefit of the Social Security program is
considered a progressive benefit with a regressive financing
scheme.
(1) How is the Social Security benefit progressive?
(2) How is its financing scheme regressive?
2). One of the main goals of the ACA (Patient Protection and
Affordable Care Act of 2010, aka Obamacare) was to provide
affordable health care to the uninsured.
1. What were the THREE primary pieces of the law that were meant to
provide coverage for everyone...
Refer to Figure 5-1. A perfectly elastic demand curve is shown
in
Panel D.
Panel A.
Panel C.
Panel B.
Refer to Figure 5-5. The data in the diagram indicates that
DVDs
are luxury goods.
are both luxury goods and price inelastic goods.
are price inelastic goods.
are both necessities and price inelastic goods.
are necessities.
3-
Consider the following pairs of items:
a. shampoo and conditioner
b. iPhones and earbuds
c. a laptop computer and a desktop computer
d....
1. An increase in the minimum wage is good for workers. This statement is a. obviously true b.obviously false c.a positive statement (or positive analysis) d.a normative statement (or normative analysis) 2. Ceteris paribus is an analytical assumption that means that when you consider a relationship a. you always must remember that what goes around comes around b. you must remember that the ones with the money make the rules c. you assume that all other factors and variables are...
FART I TRUE FALSE QUESTIONS (10 points). Please write True (1) or False (F) on the blank Scarcity is the intimited nature of society's resources given society's limited wants 2. A reward is a type of positive incentive. 3. To remove difficulty of double coincidence of wants we use money. 4. An exogenous factor is a variable that can be controlled for inside the model. 5. The PPF will not have a constant slope. 6. The law of demand states...
SESSION 12 Workers for Ivanka's clothing company The reality of working in a factory making clothes for Ivanka Trump’s label has been laid bare, with employees speaking of being paid so little they cannot live with their children, anti-union intimidation and women being offered a bonus if they don’t take time off while menstruating. The Guardian has spoken to more than a dozen workers at the fashion label’s factory in Subang, Indonesia, where employees describe being paid one of the...