Explain the paradox that establishing a union can
increase both wages and employment, but once the union is
established it must trade off increases in one for the
other.
capital controls have two opposing macroeconomic
effects, List the two opposing effects, the factors that cause the
effects and describe briefly how the factors cause these opposing
effects.
1. If “threat effects” of unionization cause non-union wages to
rise in highly-unionized industries, then the union wage gap:
(a) Overstates the union wage gain. (b) Understates the union
wage gain. (c) It’s ambiguous.
2. An increase in the relative demand for high-education workers
(relative to low-education workers) will cause:
(a) Greater wage inequality between high- and low-education
workers.
(b) Less wage inequality between high- and low-education
workers. (c) Greater wage inequality among high-education
workers.
(d) Greater wage inequality among...
Please Google the document "David Neumark Employment Effects of
Minimum Wages" and click the first link.
Based on the available evidence, is the minimum wage an
efficient way of addressing income inequality issues? Why or why
not?
Describe the pro-productivity effects of environmental
regulation. Discuss how these effects are related to measuring the
costs of environmental protection. In your discussion, make sure to
include topics such as Porter hypothesis, innovation effects and
the double-dividend hypothesis.
There are two opposing views concerning CEO duality: the unity
of demand view in favor of effective strategic decision making vs.
the agency theory view in favor of separation of power. Which view
do you agree with and why?