Over the Past Several Years, Workers in the Small Nation

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True/False

Over the past several years, workers in the small nation of Rainland have enjoyed an increase in the number of holidays and a reduction in the average length of the workday that has reduced the total number of hours they work each year. However, the output per worker in Rainland is higher now than it was before the reduction in hours. These facts suggest that productivity in Rainland has increased.

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Definitions:

Efficient

The property of resource allocation where it is impossible to make any one individual better off without making at least one individual worse off.

Marginal Benefit

Marginal benefit is the additional satisfaction or utility that a consumer receives from consuming one more unit of a good or service.

Social Cost

The total cost to society, including both private costs borne by the producer and external costs borne by others, of producing a good or service.

Perfectly Competitive

A market structure characterized by a large number of buyers and sellers, all selling identical products, with no single entity able to influence the market price.