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Suppose that in 1960 Joe's grandfather had a starting salary of $20,000 per year. In 2013 Joe graduated from college, got a job, and had a starting salary of $40,000. Which of the following is true?

A. You need to know the inflation rate in each of the two years to figure out who is better off.

B. Joe is worse off because there has been inflation since 1960.

C. You need to know the CPI value in each of the two years to figure out who is better off.

D. Joe is better off because his starting salary is higher.

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This question studies how inflation has varied across time and space in the United States.

	1984-1995	1995-2005	2005-2016	1985-2016
All Urban Consumers	3.4%	2.5%	1.9%	2.6%
NY Area	3.9%	2.7%	1.9%	2.8%
Detroit Area	3.3%	2.6%	1.3%	2.4%

A. Speculate as why the cost of living has grown differentially in the New York Metropolitan area relative to the Detroit Metropolitan area.

B. Suppose that you are a twin. And you and your twin graduated from NYU in 1984. Your twin took a job in Detroit and has remained there. And her nominal salary increased with the rate of the CPI for All Urban Consumers. You took a job in Manhattan and your nominal salary increased with the rate or the CPI of All Urban Consumers. Who is better off you or your twin? In a narrow sense? In a broad sense? Why or why not? Please provide an argument for and an argument against.

1. Joe Fixit has an appliance-repair business. He has more business than he can handle and wants to hire another repair person. Joe estimates that three appliances can be repaired each hour by a qualified person. Joe bills out labour at $45 per hour, but he stipulates that the minimum charge for appliance-repair estimates is $30 plus parts. What is the marginal revenue product of a qualified repair person? What is the maximum hourly wage that he would pay an employee?

2. Sara Lee just graduated from college with a degree in accounting. She had five job offers: Bean Counters CPA, $35,000; Assets R Us, $27,000; The Debit Store, $30,000; J & Jâ's CPAs, $33,000; and The Double Entry Shop, $40,000. What was her opportunity cost if she accepted the job with The Double Entry Shop?

3. Sam Club earned $50,000 and paid taxes of $10,000. Samantha Heart earned $60,000 and paid taxes of $12,000. If these taxes were paid to the same government agency, is the tax on income progressive, regressive, or proportional? How did you reach this conclusion?

4. Carol Jones wants her business to increase sales by 50 per cent over the next 5 years. To do this, she must hire three more people. She wants to determine how to evaluate these people, so she lists their job specifications and develops job descriptions. She also lists where these employees would work and what training they would require. What management functions is Carol performing, and how do they apply to this scenario?

5. Sam Jones, Mary Adams, and Larry Brown have been talking about starting their own business for several years. Sam is an electronic repairman, Mary is a partner in a large law firm, and Larry is an excellent salesperson. Sam and Larry will work in the business on an equal basis. It costs $100,000 to start this business. Sam has no money, Mary has $60,000, and Larry has $40,000. If they form a partnership, how would you recommend that they organize?

6. Joe Latte completed a business plan and determines that it will take $120,000 to open the coffee and gelato shop. He has $30,000 of his own money and will have to obtain $90,000 in loans or grants. How should Joe go about getting financing? What is the probability that he can obtain a grant to start a combination of coffee and Italian ice cream shop?

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Ch 7

2) Suppose that the U.S. noninstitutional adult population is 230 million and the labor force participation rate is 67 percent.

a. What would be the size of the U.S. labor force?

b. If 85 million adults are not working, what is the unemployment rate?

3) Determine whether each of the following would be considered frictional, structural, seasonal, or cyclical unemployment:

a. A UPS employee who was hired for the Christmas season is laid off after Christmas

b. A worker is laid off due to reduced aggregate demand in the economy.

c. A worker in a DVD rental store becomes unemployed as video-on-demand cable service becomes more popular.

d. A new college graduate is looking for employment.

5) When the economy is at full employment, is the unemployment rate at zero percent? Why or why not? How would a more generous unemployment insurance system affect the full employment figure?

7) Here are some recent data on the U.S. consumer price index:

YEAR CPI YEAR CPI YEAR CPI

1992 140.3 1999 166.6 2006 201.6

1993 144.5 2000 172.2 2007 207.3

1994 148.2 2001 177.1 2008 215.3

1995 152.4 2002 179.9 2009 214.5

1996 156.9 2003 184.0 2010 218.1

1997 160.5 2004 188.9 2011 224.9

1998 163.0 2005 195.3 2012 229.6

Compute the inflation rate for each year 1993 â 2012 and determine which were years of inflation. In which years did deflation occur? In which years did disinflation occur? Was there hyperinflation in any year?

Ch 8

1) How do we measure labor productivity? How do changes in labor productivity affect the U.S. standard of living?

5) Supposed that two nation start out in 2013 with identical levels of output per work hour â say, $100 per hour. In the first nation, labor productivity grows by 1 percent per year. In the second, it grows by 2 percent per year. Use a calculate or spreadsheet to determine how much output per hour each nation will be producing 20 years later, assuming that labor productivity growth rates do not change. The, determine how much each will be producing per hour 100 years later. What do your results tell you about the effect of small differences in productivity growth rates?

7) What are some examples, other than those given in the chapter of technological change that has caused unemployment? And what are some examples of new technologies that have created jobs? How do you think you might measure the net impact of technological change on overall employment and GDP in the United States?