A Post Office Worker or Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)agent

question 27

Multiple Choice

 A post office worker or Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent would typically be part of the federal bureaucracy known as 

• A) the competitive service. 
• B) Schedule C positions. 
• C) the merit service. 
• D) the contingent service. 
• E) the excepted service.

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Definitions:

Labor-Intensive

A process or industry that requires a large amount of labor relative to capital in its production processes.

Production Techniques

Methods or processes used in the transformation of inputs into outputs in the production of goods or services.

Elastic

In economics, the term "elastic" refers to the responsiveness of the quantity demanded or supplied of a good to a change in its price. High elasticity means the quantity demanded or supplied changes significantly with price changes.

Imperfectly Competitive Market

A market structure where individual firms have some control over the price of their products due to factors like product differentiation or few competitors.