-The Table Above Shows the Aggregate Production Function in the Economy

question 194

Essay

-The table above shows the aggregate production function in the economy of Prescottia. The people of Prescottia pay no taxes and are willing to work 248 million hours a year for a real wage rate of $8 an hour, and for each dollar increase in the real wage, they are willing to work 4 million additional hours per year.
a) Draw the economy's aggregate production function.
b) Prescottia's demand for labor schedule is in the table above. Draw Prescottia's demand for labor and supply of labor curves.
c) What are the economy's full-employment quantity of labor and real wage rate? What is the country's potential GDP?
d) Suppose that Prescottia's government introduces a 25 percent income tax. Using your graph, what happens to the demand for labor? What happens to the supply of labor? Explain.
e) After the tax is imposed, what happens to Prescottia's full-employment quantity of labor? What happens to Prescottia's potential GDP?

Differentiate between variable, fixed, and sunk costs and their relevance to business decisions.

Apply the concept of the law of diminishing returns to various contexts including study time and production.

Understand how external factors like gasoline prices impact production costs and firm responses.

Analyze the decision-making process in the presence of sunk costs.

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