A. exporting American jobs by investing overseas
B. exporting American jobs by keeping investment in the U.S
C. importing cheap foreign workers by shifting U.S investment overseas
D. importing cheap foreign workers by keeping U.S investment at home
Related Mcqs:
- Accusations of American labor unions against U.S multinational firms include all of the following except ?
A. enjoy unfair advantage in taxation
B. export jobs by shifting technology overseas
C. export jobs by shifting investment overseas
D. operating at output levels where scale economies occur - Multinational corporations ?
A. always produce primary goods
B. always produce manufactured goods
C. produce primary goods or manufactured goods
D. None of the above - Multinational corporations ?
A. increase the transfer of technology between nations
B. make it harder to nations to foster activities of comparative advantage
C. always enjoy political harmony in nations where their subsidiaries operate
D. require governmental subsidies in order to conduct worldwide operations - Multinational corporations face problems since they ?
A. cannot benefit from the advantage of comparative advantage
B. may raise political problems in countries where their subsidiaries operate
C. can only invest at home but not overseas
D. can only invest overseas but not at home - Which of the following is true with regard to a tax on labor income? Taxes on labor income tend to encourage ?
A. the unscrupulous to enter the underground economy
B. the elderly to retire early.
C. all the things described in these answers.
D. second earners to stay home.
E. workers to work fewer hours - 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 - one of the tenets of the classical view of the labor market is that the wage adjustments that are necessary to clear the labor market occur ?
A. quickly
B. slowly
C. very infrequently
D. instantly - Unions tend to increase the disparity in pay between insiders and outsiders by ?
A. increasing the wage in the Unionized sector, Which may create a decrease in the supply of workers in the non-unionized sector
B. Increasing the demand for workers in the Unionized sector
C. decreasing the demand for workers in the Unionized sector
D. Increasing the wage in the Unionized sector which may create an increase in the supply of workers in the non-unionized sector - Unions achieve a higher wage differential the more _____ and the more ______?
A. inelastic the demand for labour, they can restrict the supply of labour
B. members they have, aggressive they behave
C. the economy is growing, people prefer leisure
D. the productivity is growing vacancies exist - ________ refers to the price charged for products sold to a subsidiary to a multinational corporation b another subsidiary in another country?
A. marginal cost pricing
B. full cost pricing
C. price discrimination
D. transfer pricing
