Suppose the world price of steel rises substantially. the demand for labor among steel-producing firms in pennsylvania will increase. the demand for labor among automobile-producing firms in michigan, for which steel is an input, will decrease. the temporary unemployment resulting from such sectoral shifts in the economy is best described as frictional unemployment.
suppose the government wants to reduce this type of unemployment. which of the following would achieve this goal?
a. increasing the benefit offered to unemployed workers through the government's unemployment insurance program
b. improving a widely used job-search website so that it matches workers to job vacancies more efficiently
c. taxing the price of placing a resume or posting a job opening on a job-search website

Laval produces lamps and home lighting fixtures. its most popular product is a brushed aluminum desk lamp. this lamp is made from components shaped in the fabricating department and assembled in the assembly department. information related to the 22,000 desk lamps produced annually follows. direct materials $280,000direct labor fabricating department (8,000 dlh × $24 per dlh) $192,000assembly department (16,600 dlh × $26 per dlh) $431,600machine hours fabricating department $15,200mhassembly department $20,850mhexpected overhead cost and related data for the two production departments follow. fabricating assemblydirect labor hours 150,000dlh 295,000dlhmachine hours 161,000mh 128,000mhoverhead cost $400,000 430,000required1. determine the plantwide overhead rate for laval using direct labor hours as a base.2. determine the total manufacturing cost per unit for the aluminum desk lamp using the plantwide overhead rate.3. compute departmental overhead rates based on machine hours in the fabricating department and direct labor hours in the assembly department.4. use departmental overhead rates from requirement 3 to determine the total manufacturing cost per unit for the aluminum desk lamps.

Zendor company wants to have $200,000 available in august 2021 to make an equipment purchase. to be able to have this amount available, zendor will make equal annual deposits in an investment account earning 12% annually in june 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021. what is the dollar amount that must be deposited each of those years to achieve this objective?

What can be concluded from the data about the reliability and validity of the thermometers