Firm A would hire 20,000 workers if the wage rate is $12 but will hire 10,000 workers if the wage rate is $15. Firm B will hire 30,000 workers if the wage is $20 but will hire 33,000 workers if the wage is $15. The workers in which firm are more likely to organize and form a union? Hint: You need to calculate the elasticity of labor demand.

Firm A would hire 20,000 workers if the wage rate is $12 but will hire 10,000 workers if the wage rate is $15. Firm B will hire 30,000 workers if the wage is $20 but will hire 33,000 workers if the wage is $15. The workers in which firm are more likely to organize and form a union? Hint: You need to calculate the elasticity of labor demand.

ENGR.ECONOMIC ANALYSIS

14th Edition

ISBN:9780190931919

Author:NEWNAN

Publisher:NEWNAN

Chapter1: Making Economics Decisions

Section: Chapter Questions

Problem 1QTC

See similar textbooks

Similar questions

Solve for and fill in the missing portions of the following table to derive the monopsonist's derived demand curve for labor and answer the following questions: Total Physical Marginal Physical Product Number of Marginal Revenue Price Workers Product Product 246 9,557.10 32.70 32.70 247 32.65 1 248 9,622.35 32.60 32.60 249 9,654.90 1 32.55 250 32.50 1 32.50 251 9,719.85 32.45 1 252 9,752.25 32.40 1 32.40 253 9,784.60 1 32.35 32.30 1 32.30 254 9,816.90 Question: What is the total physical product when the firm hires the 247th worker, and what is the marginal revenue product from hiring the 247th worker?
Consider a union that bargains over Wages (W) and employment (E). 1. Draw a diagram that illustrates the set of efficient contracts. Be sure your diagram also includes: at least 2 firm isoprofit curves; at least 2 union indifference curves; the labour demand curve 2. Now describe the location of the contract curve relative to the labour demand curve and the isoprofit curves and explain the intuition behind this location on the graph
true or false Labor unions are organized primarily to help women who are expecting to go into labor while on the job.
Describe the wage-employment outcome in a model of monopoly unionism. Explain why (and in what sense) this wage-employment outcome is inefficient.
Suppose the demand faced by a labor monopsony is W=20,000-50%, where Wis the annual wage and / is the number of workers hired. The labor supply is given by W-5,000 + 751. What is the deadweight loss associated with this monopsony, rounded to the nearest dollar? a. $105,502 b. $126,563 c. $130,000 d. $120,356
Explain the relationship between the own-wage elasticity of labor demand and output demand elasticity. labour costs as a share of total costs of production.
Which of the following describes the effect of the changes in the manufacturing labor market on the market for service workers, which is not unionized? Check all that apply. The wage of service workers will fall. The supply of service workers will remain unchanged. The demand for service workers will remain unchanged. There will be an increase in employment in the service sector.
Suppose that a car factory initially hires 1,600 workers at $20 per hour and that each worker works 40 hours per week. Then the factory unionizes, and the new union demands that wages be raised by 25 percent. The firm accedes to that request in collective bargaining negotiations but then decides to cut the factory’s labor force by 30 percent due to the higher labor costs.
RATE 4. Excess supply with union wages Consider the housing construction industry. Assume that the industry is perfectly competitive in both input and output markets. Suppose that, through collective bargaining, a labor union negotiates an industry-wide wage for various kinds of labor (electricians, plumbers, and so on). In particular, it succeeds in negotiating a wage increase for carpenters from $30 to $40 per hour. The following graph shows the labor demand of an individual firm. On the following graph, show what happens at the firm level as a result of the union negotiations. 10 20 50 24 72 QUANTITY OF LABOR Demand 120 Demand Supply Supply Now consider the effects of the wage change on the entire industry. Use the graph input tool to help you answer the following questions. You will not be graded on any changes you make to this graph. Note: Once you enter a value in a white field, the graph and any corresponding amounts in each grey field will change accordingly. WAGE RATE (Dollars…
3. Union and Labor Market Efficiency (a) Given an inverse labor demand function of w = 30 - 0.02LD, find the elasticity of labor demand when w = 10. Does the firm pay out more to its workers by increasing wages?
You are a labor economist trying to evaluate whether the labor market for computer scientists is competitive or monopsonistic. Based on previous research, you know that the production function for computers depends only on labor input: Y = -0.5L^2 + 10L; where Y is the output of computers and L is the quantity of labor used. The price of a computer is p = 2. You also know that the labor supply, as a function of the wage, for computer scientists is the following, where w is the wage per unit of labor: L = -10 + w. a. Find the equilibrium wages and employment (wc; Lc) that would prevail if the market for computer scientists were competitive. [Remember that a competitive firm takes the wage as given : that is, it assumes that the quantity of workers that it hires has no effect on the price of the next worker. (Of course, the equilibrium wage must equate demand and supply)].
Under the Wagner Act (NLRA), the only time workers are entitled to union representation is when the union has the support of the majority of workers at the workplace. False True