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- What is die price commonly called in the labor market?Table 14.10 shows levels of employment (Labor), the marginal product at each of those levels, and the price at which the film can sell output in the perfectly competitive market where it operates. What is the value of the marginal product at each level of labor? If the firm operates in a perfectly competitive labor market where the going market wage is 12, what is the films profit maximizing level of employment?Table 14.11 shows levels of employment (Labor), the marginal product at each of those levels, and a monopolys marginal revenue. What is the monopolys marginal revenue product at each level of employment? If the monopoly operates in a perfectly competitive labor market where the going market wage is 20, what is the films profit maximizing level of employment?
- Name some factors that can cause a shift in the demand curve in labor markets.l.C<ldbelly Co. sells pencils in a perfectly competitiveproduct market and hires workers in a perfectly competitivelabor matkct. Assume that the market \\'age rate forworkers is $150 per day.a. What rule should Lead belly follow to hire theprofit-maximizing amount of Labor?b. At the profit-maximizing level of output, the marginalproduct of the last worker hired is 30 boxesof pencils per day. Calculate the p rice of a box ofpencils.c. Uraw a diagram of the labor market for pencil workers(as in Figure 4 of this chapter) next to a diagramof the labor supply and demand for Lcadbelly Co. (asin Figure 3). Label the equilibrium wage and quantityof labor for both the market and the firm. H0\\1 arethese diagrams related?d. Suppose some pencil workers switch to jobs in thegrowing computer industry. On the side-by--sidediagrams fmm part (c), show how this changeaffects the equilibrium wage and quantity of Laborfor both the pencil market and lor Leadbelly. Howdocs this change affect the…A current debate in education is whether teachersshould be paid on a standard pay scale based solelyupon their years of training and teaching experience,or whether part of their salary should be based upontheir performance (called “merit pay”).a. Why might merit pay be desirable?b. Who might be opposed to a system of merit pay?c. What is a potential challenge of merit pay?d. A related issue: Why might a school district decideto pay teachers significantly more than the salariesoffered by surrounding districts?
- Number ofWorkersEmployed Output(Units) MarginalProduct(Units) Value ofMarginalProduct ($)(Market Price=1$) Value ofMarginalProduct ($)(Market Price=2$) 0 0 1 8 2 22 3 36 4 56 5 60 6 72 7 82 8 89 Derive Marginal Product and Value of Marginal Product from the following table when market price for the product is 1$ and 2$ .Suppose that Congress passes a law requiringemployers to provide employees some benefit (suchas healthcare) that raises the cost of an employee by$4 per hour.a. What effect does this employer mandate haveon the demand for labor? (In answering this andthe following questions, be quantitative whenyou can.)b. If employees place a value on this benefit exactlyequal to its cost, what effect does this employermandate have on the supply of labor?c. If the wage can freely adjust to balance supply anddemand, how does this law affect the wage andthe level of employment? Are employers better orworse off? Are employees better or worse off?d. Suppose that, before the mandate, the wage in thismarket was $3 above the minimum wage. In thiscase, how does the employer mandate affect thewage, the level of employment, and the level ofunemployment?e. Now suppose that workers do not value themandated benefit at all. How does this alternativeassumption change your answers to parts(b) and (c)?Policymakers sometimes propose laws requiring firms to give workerscertain fringe benefits, such as health insurance or paid parental leave.Let's consider the effects of such a policy on the labor market.a. Suppose that a law required firms to give each worker $3 of fringebenefits for every hour that the worker is employed by the firm. Howdoes this law affect the marginal profit that a firm earns from eachworker at a given cash wage? How does the law affect the demand curvefor labor? Draw your answer on a graph with the cash wage on thevertical axis. b. If there is no change in labor supply how would this law affectemployment and wages? c. Why might the labor-supply curve shift in response to this law? Wouldthis shift in labor supply raise or lower the impact of the law on wagesand employment? d. As discussed in Chapter 6, the wages of some workers, particularly theunskilled and inexperienced, are kept above the equilibrium level byminimum wage laws. What effect would a fringe-benefit…
- To maximize profits, a firm uses a fixed amount of capital and varying amounts of labour inits production processes to produce commodity Y. The output fetches Kshs 3 in the market andthe firm’s production is as summarized.Number of workers Output per hour0 01 92 173 244 305 356 397 428 44 Required;i.Calculate the marginal product of labour for this firm and the value of the marginal productof labour and the Marginal Revenueii.Suppose that the competitive wage for workers who can make Product Y is Ksh16 perhour. How many workers should this firm hire and why?10. The Beveridge curve is an indicator of:A. The efficiency of the labor marketB. The willingness of workers to supply laborC. The demand for laborD. All of the aboveTable 14.10 shows levels of employment (Labor), the marginal product at each of those levels, and the price at which the firm can sell output in the perfectly competitive market where it operates. a. What is the value of the marginal product at each level of labor?b. If the firm operates in a perfectly competitive labor market where the going market wage is $12, what is thefirm’s profit maximizing level of employment?
