EP ECONOMICS,AP EDITION-CONNECT ACCESS
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ISBN: 9780021403455
Author: McConnell
Publisher: MCGRAW-HILL HIGHER EDUCATION
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Chapter 23, Problem 3DQ
To determine
Lifetime earnings gain from migration.
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7. LO 2, 4 Suppose that a consumer can earn a
higher wage rate for working overtime. That is,
for the first q hours the consumer works, he or
she receives a real wage rate of w, and for hours
worked more than q he or she receives w, where
W2>W1. Suppose that the consumer pays no
taxes and receives no nonwage income, and he or
she is free to choose hours of work.
(a) Draw the consumer's budget constraint, and
show his or her optimal choice of consump-
tion and leisure
(b) Show that the consumer would never work
hours, or anything very close to q
Explain the intuition behind this.
(c) Determine what
hours.
happens if the overtime
wage rate w2 increases. Explain your results
in terms of income and substitution effects.
You must consider the case of a worker who
initially works overtime, and a worker who
initially does not work overtime.
. Suppose that a car dealership wishes to see if efficiency wages will help improve its salespeople’s productivity. Currently, each salesperson sells an average of one car per day while being paid $20 per hour for an eight-hour day. LO17.8
What is the current labor cost per car sold?
Suppose that when the dealer raises the price of labor to $30 per hour the average number of cars sold by a salesperson increases to two per day. What is now the labor cost per car sold? By how much is it higher or lower than it was before? Has the efficiency of labor expenditures by the firm (cars sold per dollar of wages paid to salespeople) increased or decreased?
Suppose that if the wage is raised a second time to $40 per hour the number of cars sold rises to an average of 2.5 per day. What is now the labor cost per car sold?
If the firm’s goal is to maximize the efficiency of its labor expenditures, which of the three hourly salary rates should it use: $20 per hour, $30 per hour, or $40 per hour?…
Question 14
Human capital is H-e0.07*5), where S is the number of years of schooling. What is the ratio of the productivities of the persons having 9 and 12 years
of schooling, respectively. Hint: This will be the ratio of their wages in the competitive labor ratio of their wages in the competitive labor market.
O 0.81
0.95
O 1.03
O 1.54
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