A Standard Efficiency Wage Model Pays Workers Higher Wages in Order

question 4

Multiple Choice

A standard efficiency wage model pays workers higher wages in order to increase worker efficiency. As a result, firm profits increase and there is a pool of involuntarily unemployed workers. In this model, if the firm's cost of monitoring effort falls,

• A) the efficiency wage will fall.
• B) the number of shirking workers will fall.
• C) firm profits will fall.
• D) the firm will monitor less.
• E) the pool of involuntarily unemployed workers will increase.

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