It costs Oriole Company $12 of variable and $5 of fixed costs to produce one bathroom scale which normally sells for $35. A foreign wholesaler offers to purchase 2100 scales at $15 each. Garner would incur special shipping costs of $1 per scale if the order were accepted. Oriole has sufficient unused capacity to produce the 2100 scales. If the special order is accepted, what will be the effect on net income?

Minneapolis federal reserve bank economist edward prescott estimates the elasticity of the u. s. labor supply to be 3. given this elasticity, what would be the impact of funding the social security program with tax increases on the number of hours worked and on the amount of taxes collected to fund social security?

Suppose a firm faces a fixed price of output, 푝푝= 1200. the firm hires workers from a union at a daily wage, 푤푤, to produce output according to the production function 푞푞= 2퐸퐸12. there are 225 workers in the union. any union worker who does not work for this firm is guaranteed to find nonunion employment at a wage of $96 per day. a. what is the firm’s labor demand function? b. if the firm is allowed to choose 푤푤, but then the union decides how many workers to provide (up to 225) at that wage, what wage will the firm set? how many workers will the union provide? what is the firm’s output and profit? what is the total income of the 225 union workers? c. now suppose that the union sets the wage, but the firm decides how many workers to hire at that wage (up to 225). what wage will the union set to maximize the total income of all 225 workers? how many workers will the firm hire? what is the firm’s output and profit? what is the total income of the 225 union workers? [hint: to maximize total income of union, take the first order condition with respect to w and set equal to 0.]

Which of the following constitute the types of unemployment occurring at the natural rate of unemployment? a. frictional and cyclical unemployment. b. structural and frictional unemployment. c. cyclical and structural unemployment. d. frictional, structural, and cyclical unemployment.