Markets for Labor, Capital, and Land MCQ
If a firm must borrow funds to acquire capital, it will have to pay back those funds plus an extra amount known as ______.
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According to the marginal productivity theory of income distribution, each person receives payment equal to ______.
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The contribution to production made by the factor he or she owns
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With a factor of production that has a fixed supply, such as land, how is the supply curve affected when the price increases?
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It does change.
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What is meant by “featherbedding” in terms of union employment?
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Adding workers who may not be necessary
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What is the importance of the Wagner Act of 1935?
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It legally protected the right of workers to organize and bargain collectively.
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Which of the following is a reason labor unions developed in the United States?
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Child laborers were often being exploited.
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Which of the following cultural developments gave rise to labor unions in the United States?
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Transition from agricultural to industrial society
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What situation exists when a single employer dominates a labor market and has the power to affect wages?
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Monopsony
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How would the labor supply curve be affected by the entrance into the market of a large number of immigrants looking for work?
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Shift to the right
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How is the demand curve for labor affected by an increase in labor productivity?
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Moves to the right
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Which of these situations occurs at wages lower than the equilibrium level?
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The demand for labor is greater than the quantity supplied.
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The income effect is the tendency of ______.
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Workers at a high-wage rate to view leisure as a normal good
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The major reason the demand curve for labor slopes ______ is the law of ______.
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Downward; diminishing marginal product
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Which of the following equations calculates marginal revenue product?
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Marginal product × price of product
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What is marginal revenue product?
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The additional income a firm obtains from one more unit of input
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What is marginal revenue product?
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The additional income a firm obtains from one more unit of input
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The Wagner act was a legislation enacted in_____ to protect worker’s rights.
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Taft-Wagner act _____ the power granted to workers by the Wagner act.
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Monopsony is a market with a single _____.
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Marginal revenue product (MRP) times the price of the product.
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The amount that an extra input adds to the firm’s total cost is called marginal cost.
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By marginal productivity theory income is distributed to the marginal revenue.
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Interest is _____ of borrowed funds.
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Featherbedding is the practice of hiring workers who may not be _____.
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Necessary
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Economic rent is the payment for the use of any resource above its _____ cost.
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Opportunity
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The demand for an input derived from consumers’ demand for the good or service produced with that input is called derived demand.
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Negotiations between representatives of _____ and ____ are called collective bargaining.
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Both A and c
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Income effect dominates the substitution effect, which is called Backward-bending labor supply curve.
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