A. Free adjustment
B. Cost effective adjustment
C. Comparative adjustment
D. Cost of living adjustment
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 - When average cost is falling marginal cost is ________ and when average cost is rising marginal cost is?
A. greater than average cost, greater than average cost
B. less than average cost, greater than average cost
C. less than average cost, less than average cost
D. greater than average cost, less than average cost - Unemployment resulting from real wages being above their equilibrium level is called _________ unemployment?
A. natural
B. frictional
C. disequilibrium
D. structural - Periods of less than full employment corresponds to _________________ ?
A. points outside the production possibility curve
B. either points inside or outside the production possibility curve.
C. points on the production possibility curve
D. points inside the production possibility curve. - Amount of money needed to purchase the goods and services required to maintain a certain standard of living called ?
A. Cost of living
B. Basic requirement
C. Cost of life
D. None of the above - A way of helping depressed regions by having lower wages lower local taxes and lower unemployment benefit has been suggested as ?
A. market-orientated economists
B. left-wing theorists
C. Keynesian.
D. new-Keynesian - Which of the following is an example of a reason why firms might pay efficiency wages ?
A. At equilibrium wages workers sleep when the boss is not looking because workers are not deeply concerned about being fired
B. At equilibrium wages workers often quit to find better jobs.
C. At equilibrium wages only minimally qualified workers apply for the job
D. At equilibrium wages, workers cannot afford a healthy diet so they fall asleep at work due to a lack of energy
E. All of these answers - 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. - Differences in wages that result from differences in working conditions are known as ?
A. occupational differentials
B. search differentials
C. job differentials.
D. compensating differentials - Economists have hypothesized that the widening gap between the wages of unskilled workers and skilled workers may be due to ?
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
