4.Show how a company in a competitive labour market decides to
set the number of workers...
4.Show how a company in a competitive labour market decides to
set the number of workers they hire in the short run. What is the
nature of the demand curve?
Suppose the government wants to help workers in a competitive
labour market. Illustrate and explain how the government could do
this by: a) imposing a minimum wage and b) by providing firms with
a subsidy to hire workers. All else equal, which will have the
greater impact on affected workers’ wage: a $2:00 increase in the
minimum wage or a $2:00 subsidy?
When there is a decrease in the number of people in the labour
market/workers, similar to that of the plague, how does technology
help boost output? Please use a diagram to help me visualize it.
Also with the decrease in the number of people, how did the economy
behave? What were the significant events?
Now assume the government decides to set a price ceiling of $4
per gallon. Show and explain how this legal price affects your
graph of the milk market. What objective could the government be
trying to achieve by establishing such a price ceiling?
Assume that you are studying a perfectly competitive labour
market.
The demand for labour is given by W = 200 – L
The supply for labour is given by W = 100 + L
a) Calculate the wage rate in the market and illustrate in a
diagram.
b) If the wages becomes W = 175, what will happen in the market?
Explain how the
equilibrium will be reached and illustrate in a diagram.
c) If the wages becomes W =...
Consider a perfectly competitive labour market, Labour Demand is
given by LD = 105 – 5W, and Labour Supply is given by LS = 10W,
where W is the market wage rate. In order to stimulate employment
in this industry, the government offers workers an additional $3
for each unit of labour worked. Find the new market equilibrium
take-home wage for workers?
A)11
B)8
C)5
D)10
How are wages set in the labor market? Are workers and companies
Wage (price) setters or wage (price) takers or both? Explain how a
company or a worker can be a wage setter, while other companies and
workers are wage takers. Hint: A wage setter is where the
company/worker decide how much to pay/how much the wages should be
and wage taker is where the company pays what the market wages are,
no more or less.
Q16. In the competitive model of the aggregate labour market,
the imposition of a minimum real wage that is greater than the
competitive real wage will:
(a) Make all labour force participants better off
(b) Make all labour force participants worse off
(c) Force businesses to pay a real wage that is greater than the
marginal product of labour
(d) Result in an excess demand for labour
(e)None of the above
Q19. In the competitive model of the labour market,...