A. decrease in the demand for unskilled workers because of increases in technology and increases in international trade
B. increase in the number of unskilled workers available due to immigration into the UK.
C. decrease in the demand for unskilled workers are more poorly educated
D. increase in the number of unskilled workers available because workers are more poorly educated
Related Mcqs:
- Assume that Country A is relatively abundant in labor and Country B is relatively abundant in land Note that wages are the returns to labor and rents are the returns to land According to the factor price equalization theorem, once Country A begins specializing according to comparative advantage and trading with Country B: A. wages and rents should fall in Country A B. wages and rents should rise in Country A C. wages should rise and rents should fall in Country A D. wages should fall and rents should raise in Country A ?
XA. wages and rents should fall in Country A
B. wages and rents should rise in Country A
C. wages should rise and rents should fall in Country A
D. wages should fall and rents should raise in Country A - A group of economists argue that the real problem with the economy is high rates of taxation and heavy regulation that reduce the incentives to work, save and invest. These economists are?
A. Supply-side economics
B. neo-Keynesian economists
C. rational-expectations economists.
D. new classical economists. - A group of economists argue that the real problem with the economy is high rates of taxation and heavy regulation that reduce the incentives to work save and invest these economists are ?
A. supply side economists
B. neo-Keynesian economists
C. rational -expectations economists
D. New classical economists - Suppose two economists are arguing about policies that deal with unemployment. One economist says. The government could lower unemployment by one percentage point if it would just increase government spending by 50 billion dollars the other economist responds Nonsense and poppycock! If the government spent an additional 50 billion dollars it would reduce unemployment by only one tenth of one percent. and that effect would only be temporary! These economists ?
A. None of these answers
B. Disagree because they have different scientific judgments
C. really don’t disagree at all. It just appears that they disagree
D. disagree because they have different values - Suppose two economists are arguing about policies that deal with unemployment One economist says the government should fight unemployment because it is the greatest social evil The other economist response Nonsense Inflation is the greatest social evil These economists ?
A. really don’t disagree at all It just appears that they disagree.
B. disagree because they have different values.
C. none of these answers.
D. disagree because they have different scientific judgments. - An unspoken agreement between workers and firms that the firm will not cut wages is known as ?
A. an implicit or social contract
B. a relative-wage contract
C. employment at will
D. an explicit contract - If a government were to fix a minimum wage for adult workers, economists would predict ?
A. wages in general would fall as employers tried to hold down costs
B. fewer young workers would be employed
C. the costs and prices of firms employing cheap labour would increase
D. there would be more unemployment - If workers and firms agree on an increase in wages based on their expectations of inflation and inflation turns out to be more than they expected ?
A. none of these answers
B. Workers will gain at the expense of firms
C. neither workers nor firms will gain because the increase in wages in fixed in the labor agreement
D. firms will gain at the expense of workers. - If the total product of two workers is 80 and the total product of 3 workers is 90 then the average product of the third worker is ________ and the marginal product of the third worker is _________?
A. 160; 270
B. 10; 30
C. 10; 3.33
D. 30; 10 - Which of the following is not true with regard to workers who have a high value of marginal product? These workers ?
A. have skills that are in relatively scarce supply
B. produce output for which there is great demand
C. usually have little capital with which to work
D. are usually highly paid
