A Good Example of a Sectoral Shift Would Be the

question 50

Multiple Choice

A good example of a sectoral shift would be the

• A) loss of total Canadian employment to Mexico.
• B) decrease in the size of manufacturing employment relative to service sector employment in Canada.
• C) recent influx of immigrants to Canada.
• D) expansion in the fraction of employees covered by Employment Insurance in Canada.
• E) outsourcing of Canada's jobs to India.

Understand the concept of fixed and variable costs in production.

Recognize the effects of economies of scale, constant returns to scale, and diseconomies of scale.

Identify the role of specialization and diminishing returns in production.

Interpret representations of production functions and their implications on costs and output.

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