Laura's father, albert, gave laura a gift of 500 shares of liba corporation common stock in 2017. albert's basis for the liba stock was $4,000. at the date of this gift, the fair market value of the liba stock was $3,000. if laura sells the 500 shares of liba stock in 2018 for $3,500, what is the reportable gain or loss in 2018?

Morris borrowed $9,000 from a credit union at 13% simple interest for 42 months. what were his money installment payments?

Which term refers to the amount of products generated divided by the inputs necessary to create that output? a. performance b. industry ranking c. productivity d. organizational performance e. organizational effectiveness

Ajustification for job training programs is that they improve worker productivity. suppose that you are asked to evaluate whether more job training makes workers more productive. however, rather than having data on individual workers, you have access to data on manufacturing firms in ohio. in particu- lar, for each firm, you have information on hours of job training per worker (training) and number of nondefective items produced per worker hour (output). (i) carefully state the ceteris paribus thought experiment underlying this policy question. (ii) does it seem likely that a firm’s decision to train its workers will be independent of worker characteristics? what are some of those measurable and unmeasurable worker characteristics? (iii) name a factor other than worker characteristics that can affect worker productivity. (iv) if you find a positive correlation between output and training, would you have convincingly established that job training makes workers more productive? explain.