ECON 2200E Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Indentured Servant, Marginal Revenue Productivity Theory Of Wages, Tax Wedge

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18 Jan 2017

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University of Georgia

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Economics

Course

ECON 2200E

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Jason Rudbeck

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If price is too high, quantity demanded will be less than quantity supplied (surplus) If price is too low, quantity demanded will be more than quantity supplied (shortage) Demand shows you marginal benefit (willingness to pay curve) Supply shows us sellers and marginal cost, first units are not as costly. Consumer surplus = willingness to pay price paid. Producer surplus= price received mc (supply) Firms: dl = wtp = marginal revenue product of labor (mrpl) = mpl x pgood, sl = mc workers. If wage is too high, lower the amount of workers: unemployment will cause wage to go down. Supply can decrease and demand can decrease. Demand factor: blacks become substitutes for indentured servants, so slavery increased: decreases wage the indentured servants are paid. Number of years to complete contract increased. Supply factor: voyage costs fall over time, european income were rising: upward pressure on the wage: # of years to serve decreases.

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Consider the market for labor depicted by the demand and supply curves that follow.

Complete the following table with the quantity of labour supplied and demanded if the wage is set at $15.00. Then indicate whether this wage will result in a shortage or a surplus.

Wage Labor Demanded Labor Supplied Shortage or surplus

(Dollars per hour) (Thousands of workers) (Thousands of workers)

Suppose a senator considers introducing a bill to legislate a minimum hourly wage of $15.

Which of the following statements are true? Check all that apply.

1. In the absence of price controls, a surplus puts downward pressure on wages until they fall to the equilibrium.

2. In this labour market, a minimum wage of $11.50 would be binding.

3. If the minimum wage is set at $15, the market will not reach equilibrium.

4. Binding minimum wages cause structural unemployment.

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1. If the price of a product decreases, we would expect:

a. Demand to increase

b. Quantity supplied to decrease

c. Supply to decrease

d. Quantity supplied to increase

2. "Price" in the statement of the Law of Supply refers to:

a. The amount that buyers are willing and able to pay for each unit of the product.

b. Marginal cost of producing the last unit of the product.

c. The total revenues that sellers receive for selling a given quantity of the product.

d. The total amount that buyers pay to acquire a given quantity of the product.

3. A decrease in demand and an increase in supply will:

a. Affect price in an indeterminate way and decrease the equilibrium quantity

b. Increase the price and affect the equilibrium quantity in an indeterminate way

c. Decrease price and affect the equilibrium quantity in an indeterminate way

d. Increase the price and increase the equilibrium quantity

4. When producers (say, of roads) are not able to make all consumers pay for enjoying their product (i.e., the roads), they tend to see:

a. The marginal cost of production is too low, and there is a supply-side market failure

b. The marginal benefit of production is too high, and there is a demand-side market failure

c. The marginal cost of production is too high, and there is a supply-side market failure

d. The marginal benefit of production that is too low, and there is a demand-side market failure

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1. A firm's supply curve for labor: A) is vertical for a firm in perfect competition. B) is the same thing as the MRPL for a firm in perfect competition. C) and the firm's MRPL will determine the profit-maximizing quantity of labor hired by the firm in perfect competition. D) is the same as its demand curve for labor. 2. The wage paid by a firm buying labor in a perfectly competitive market: A) is greater than the market wage. B) is less than the market wage. C) is equal to the market wage. D) increases with the quantity of labor hired. 3. A lower wage: A) has an income effect but not a substitution effect on the quantity of labor supplied. B) means a higher income for any given level of labor supplied. C) has an income effect which is always negative with respect to the quantity of labor supplied. D) has an income effect which is always positive with respect to the quantity of labor supplied. 4. In perfect competition where P is the price of output: A) MRPL = MPL x P. B) MRPL/MPL = PL. C) MRP/P = MPK. D) MRPL x P = MPL. 5. The net present value (NPV) of an activity or project is: A) equal to the future value of all the revenues minus the present value of all the costs associated with it. B) equal to the present value of all the revenues minus the present values of all the costs associated with it. C) equal to the present value of all the revenues minus the future values of all the costs associated with it. D) equal to the future values of all the revenues minus the future values of all the costs associated with it. 6. The condition for hiring factors of production- that is, where MFC = MRP- is analogous to the profit-maximizing output condition: A) TR = TC. B) MR = MC. C) AR = ATC. D) P = MR. 7. A firm should use less of a factor of production if: A) MRP > MFC. B) MRP = MFC C) (MR x MP) < MFC D) MRP < (MP x MR)

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