Questions from Labor Economics


Q: Suppose the firm’s production function is given by / where

Suppose the firm’s production function is given by where E w and E b are the number of whites and blacks employed by the firm respectively. It can be shown that the marginal product...

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Q: Cindy, a tenured, full professor of French literature at a

Cindy, a tenured, full professor of French literature at a large university, is paid $60,000. The university reports median salaries by gender and rank as a new initiative on faculty compensation. Fro...

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Q: Use Table 220 of the 2008 U.S. Statistical Abstract

Use Table 220 of the 2008 U.S. Statistical Abstract to do the following. Conditioned on educational attainment (not a high school graduate, high school graduate, bachelor’s degree, master’s degree, an...

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Q: Each employer faces competitive weekly wages of $2,000 for

Each employer faces competitive weekly wages of $2,000 for whites and $1,400 for blacks. Suppose employers undervalue the efforts/skills of blacks in the production process. In particular, every firm...

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