Principles of Economics 2e
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Chapter 12 Homework
3. Productivity and growth policies
Consider a hypothetical small island nation in which the only industry is cloud computing. The following table displays information about the economy
over a two year period.
Complete the table by calculating physical capital per worker as well as labor productivity.
Hint: Recall that productivity is defined as the amount of goods and services a worker can produce per hour. In this problem, measure productivity as
the quantity of goods per hour of labor.
Physical
Labor
Capital
Force
(Servers)
(Workers)
Physical Capital per
Worker
(Servers)
Labor
Hours
(Hours)
Year
Output
(TB of data
storage)
Labor Productivity
(TB of data storage per hour of
labor)
2035
120
60
2036
400
100
3,000
3,500
21,000
49,000
Based on your calculations,
productivity from 2035 to 2036.
in physical capital per worker from 2035 to 2036 is associated with
in labor
Suppose you're in charge of establishing economic policy for this small island country.
Which of the…
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Wk = 150; Pk = 250; Yc = 150:
Wages in the Consumer goods sector equals:
Aggregate Profits is equal to:
Aggregate wages is equal to:
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