In a well-functioning market economy, who ultimately bears the cost of employment discrimination (failing to hire an otherwise qualified applicant due to an irrelevant variable), the employer or the applicant? Given this result, what is the optimal role for government regulation in hiring practices? Why? Be sure to consider costs and benefits in your answer. Consider University of Alabama football, what was the chief factor in integrating the football team, societal and regulatory pressures or results on the field?

Why do economists study sports teams when looking for evidence of labor-market discrimination?   Select one: a. because all four United States professional sports leagues (football, basketball, hockey, and baseball) require discrimination studies every five years b. because the salaries paid to professional athletes exhibit the superstar phenomenon, which is highly correlated with discrimination c. because nonwhites comprise a majority of starters for many professional sports teams d. because the wide availability of performance statistics allows economists to control for individual player productivity in ways that are difficult to do for other types of firms

Suppose that you have the following information about the market for players on your team: Supply: W=5+N Demand: W=35-2N a. Draw this graphically and calculate the equilibrium wage and number of players on the team. b. Suppose that the players union negotiates a roster size of only 5 players on a team. Draw this graphically and calculate the new equilibrium wage number of players on the team.

Suppose that the competitive wage in independent hockey league is $100,000 per season. One team owner has a taste for discrimination against all foreign players. Her coefficient of discrimination against European players is 0.15, and her coefficient of discrimination against Canadian players is 0.30. a) If she pays them the market salary, what salary she feels she is paying to each group? b) Given her preferences, what salary she will consider to be “fair” for each group? c) If the supply of players were perfectly elastic, what would happen to the representation of European, Canadian, and US-born players on the team? d) Who is going to be better and who is going to be worse off in this situation? Out of: the team owner, other teams owners, European players, Canadian players, US-born players, fans.

Explain why unions have been slow to embrace environmental issues? What has been done to change this? 1. What is a key demographic trend you believe is influencing national or international unions in the 21st century? 2. 3. What are some of the characteristics of Canadian union membership and what is the significance of these features? 4. What is union density and why is this measure important? Some argue that high-performance work practices, nonunion representation, and nonstandard work practices are designed to be forms of union substitution and/or union avoidance. Do you feel this is true? Why or why not? 5. Assume you are a labour leader and that you are trying to organize a nonunion firm that has high-performance work practices and nonunion employee representation practices in place. What would you tell employees are the advantages of unionization even with these progressive HRM practices 6. Given the number of multinational companies and companies that operate in both Canada and…

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Occupational licensing has much the same effect as: Select one: a) monopsony b) inclusive unionism c) exclusive unionism d) bilateral monopoly e) oligopoly

The desire to maximize profits can work against racial and other types of discrimination. To see why, consider two equally productive accountants named Ted and Jared. Ted is black, and Jared is white. Both can complete 10 audits per month. Instructions: Enter your answers as a whole number. In part b, round your answer for profit rate to 1 decimal place. b. If the market price that accounting firms charge their clients for an audit is $2,000, what would the accounting profit per audit be for a firm that hired either Ted or Jared? $ What is the profit rate as a percentage? c. Suppose that firm A dislikes hiring black accountants, while firm B is happy to hire them. So Ted ends up working at firm B rather than firm A. If Ted works 11 months per year, how many audits will he complete for firm B each year? audits How much in accounting profits will firm B earn each year from those audits? d. Because firm A passed on hiring Ted because he was black, firm A is forgoing the profits it could…

If an employer have enough market power to dictate the wage, this is an example of   Question 5 options:   a monopoly.   a labor union.   a monopsony.   the marginal cost of labor.

Discuss the contributions of economics to employee and management motivation and pay.