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- Suppose a firm purchases labor in a competitive labor market and sells it product in a competitive product market. The firm's elasticity of demand for labor is -2.50. Suppose the wage increases by 4%. By what percentage will the quantity of labor hired by the firm change? Show your work.arrow_forwardThe table below shows the quantity demanded and supplied at various wage rates for a competitive market. Wage Rate Quantity of Workers Demanded Quantity of Workers Supplied $100 5 50 90 10 45 80 20 40 70 35 35 60 50 30 If the workers form a union and negotiate a weekly wage of $90, how many workers will be supplied and demanded? Multiple Choice The quantity demand will be 10 and the quantity supplied will be 35. The quantity demanded will be 10 and the quantity supplied will be 45. The quantity demand and supplied will both be 35. The quantity demanded will be 35 and the quantity supplied will be 45.arrow_forwardSuppose a firm purchases labor in a competitive labor market and sells its product in a competitive product market. The firm’s elasticity of demand for labor is -0.4. Suppose the wage increases by 5 percent. What will happen to the number of workers hired by the firm? What will happen to the marginal productivity of the last worker hired by the firm?arrow_forward
- Q5 Those working for Amazon have been trying to form a union. Suppose that these workers are successful in forming a union and call themselves the Amazon Delivery Workers. Assume the union successfully negotiated a 14 percent wage increase and the result was that the quantity of labour demanded decreased by 10 percent. Given a fixed labour demand curve, we can conclude that Multiple Choice labour demand is inelastic. the coefficient of elasticity of labour demand is equal to 1. labour demand is elastic. the labour demand curve is upsloping. economies of scale has been achieved.arrow_forwardListed are scenarios that may lead to changes in labor market conditions for chefs. Use your knowledge of labor demand and supply curves to match each scenario to the appropriate category. Will cause a shift in the demand for labor Will cause a shift in the supply of labor Will cause a shift in both the demand for labor and supply of labor Will not result in a curve shifting A professional cooking tool is invented that reduces the number of chefs required to produce many dishes. The amount of training required to work as a chef increases. Wages for chefs increase. Answer Bankarrow_forwardThe Geneva Watch Corporation manufactures watches on a conveyor belt with six stations. One worker stands at each station and performs the following tasks:Workers get paid $10 per hour. You can ignore any idle time of workers resulting from the beginning or the end of the day. a. What is the labor content? b. Assume a demand rate of 50 watches per hour. What is the takt time? c. Assume a demand rate of 50 watches per hour. What is the target manpower? d. An external supplier suggests shipping the battery module with preinstalled batteries, thereby eliminating the need for step 10. How would that impact process capacity? e. How could you increase the capacity of the process by rebalancing it?arrow_forward
- Question 26 of 30 Consider the labor market for electricians. The demand curve is downward sloping and the supply curve is upward sloping. In this market, however, there is a strong labor union. Assume that the electrician's union is able to negotiate a new contract that substantially raises their member's wages. Select the correct statement. Fewer people want to work as electricians as the union increases wage. Firms hire the same number of electricians at both wages. The wage increase is unambiguously beneficial for all the electricians working before the wage increase. O A consequer of the union negotiating a higher wage is fewer jobs for electricians. 8:25 PM 46°F 12/15/2021 aarrow_forwardSome unions limit the no. of union members and require employers to hire union members only, referred to as “closed shop”. Suppose a closed shop union limits membership to Lu and lets the firm determine the wages. Illustrate the equilibrium wage and quantity of labor using a diagram with the demand and supply curve for labor, given that the supply of labor of union workers is completely fixed at Lu. It was observed that there is a waiting list for union membership. Why?arrow_forwardLabor demand for low-skilled workers in the United States is w = 24 - 0.1 E where E is the number of workers (in millions) and w is the hourly wage. There are 120 million domestic U.S. low-skilled workers who supply labor inelastically. If the United States opened its borders to immigration, 20 million low-skill immigrants would enter the United States and supply labor inelastically. What is the market-clearing wage if immigration is not allowed? What is the market-clearing wage with open borders? How much is the immigration surplus when the United States opens its borders? How much surplus is transferred from domestic workers to domestic firms?arrow_forward
- Homework (CH 18) Sizzler's produces charcoal grills in a small manufacturing facility and sells the grills in a competitive market. The following table presents the company's production function: Labor (Number of workers) 0 OUTPUT (Grills) 400 320 280 240 Use the blue points (circle symbol) to plot the production function for Sizzler's on the following graph. (?) 200 1 160 80 ! 0 Q A N 1 0 2 3 4 5 @ 2 Output (Grills) 0 90 175 245 300 325 LABOR (Number of workers) W S X # 3 E D 4 C 4 $ R F % 5 V Production Function T -O- G 6 B Y & 7 H U 8 ( M 9 K O ) 0 L Parrow_forwardAssume that the market for unskilled workers is perfectly competitive and that the demand for unskilled workers is relatively elastic. The government imposes a minimum wage in this market. Using a correctly labeled graph, show the following. a. The market wage rate paid to hired unskilled workers. b. The number of unskilled workers hired. c. The number of unskilled workers still looking for employment. Assume that unskilled workers are the primary source of labor in the agricultural industry, strawberries. Use a correctly labeled graph of the strawberry market to explain how the minimum wage law will affect the market for strawberries and identify the following. d. The price of strawberries. e. The quantity of strawberries.arrow_forwardc. Suppose, as in part b, that there are 100 programmers inelastically supplying labor to the market. Now, head back to the table: About how many programmers will work at Robotron and how many at Korrexia? Again, use your judgment to come up with a good answer. Programmers working at Robotron: Programmers working at Korrexia: d. Suppose 50 more programmers come to town. What will the wage be now? And how many will work at each firm? Equilibrium wage: $ ___ Programmers working at Robotron:___ Programmers working at Korrexia:____arrow_forward
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