The North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation promotes all of the following except:   Management rights to determine work assignments   Freedom of association and the right to organize   The right to bargain collectively   The right to minimum standards for wages and safe working conditions

Prior to the New Deal legislation of the 1930s that expanded the rights of unions, firms were successful in suppressing union pressures by arguing in court that unions would use coercive tactics to force workers to join the union. restrict interstate commerce, which was prohibited by the Sherman Act. reduce the United States' competitive advantage it had over Germany. fail to protect the rights of children who could not legally join a union. illegally spend dues on political activities.

Globalization has enlarged the pool of labor force from which U.S. corporations can draw for their production, and this has eroded the collective bargaining position of U.S. labor unions.  Group of answer choices   True   False

Older Workers are  A much more likely to migrate than younger workers because older workers have lower moving cost B much less likely to migrate than younger workers because older workers are more likely to have children at home C much more likely to migrate than younger workers because older workers have lower implicit cost of migrating D much more likely to migrate than younger workers because younger workers have stronger roots and ties to the local community

Recently, computer programmers in developing countries such as India have begun doing work formerly done in the United States. This shift has undoubtedly led to substantial pay cuts for some programmers in the United States. Answer the following two questions: How is this possible, when the wages of skilled labor are rising in the United States as a whole? What argument would trade economists make against seeing these wage cuts as a reason to block outsourcing of computer programming?

Workers in Canada enjoy a high standard for living because     Unions in Canada keep the wage high     Canada has protected its industry from foreign competition     Canada has a high minimum wage     Workers in Canada are highly productive     Workers in Canada are highly paid irrespective of their productivity

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.

Why do U.S. labor unions oppose increasing immigration quotas in the United States? Multiple select question. The union may grow to be too large. A larger pool of nonunion workers is created. Union membership will fall. The policy reduces wages of union members. The unions' bargaining power is undercut.

Consider a tropical island economy with only two sectors: souvenir manufacturing and hospitality (hotels). Both sectors are perfectly competitive, and workers are equally able and willing to work in either industry. Only foreign tourists demand souvenirs and hotel stays, so changes in the domestic labor market do not affect the product demand curve in either sector. Suppose a union forms in the souvenir manufacturing industry. The union limits its membership to less than the number of workers employed before the union formed and forces all employers in the industry to hire only union workers. Show the effect of unionization in the souvenir industry on the labor market for souvenir manufacturers. Tool tip: Click and drag one or both of the curves. Curves will snap into position, so if you try to move the curve and it snaps back to its original position, just try again and drag it a little farther. WAGE RATE (Dollars per hour] 12+ 10 8 6 2 0 10 20 30 Labor Supply Labor Demand 40 50 60…

In the US, 30 thousand people are employed in whiskey production and 200 thousand people in motorcycle production, which is capital intensive. After opening up to trade, in the long run US economy-wide relative demand for labor O converges to the relative labor demand curve of the whiskey production industry O converges to the relative labor demand curve of the motorcycle production industry remains where it was O may follow any of the other three options