Workers at a Local Construction Company Are Paid $32

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Essay

Workers at a local construction company are paid $32.50 per hour,and they have incorporated a 4 percent annual raise in their contracts to account for expected inflation.Explain how unexpected inflation of 2 percent will affect the real wages earned by these workers and the unemployment rate of these workers.

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Definitions:

Isotope

Variants of a particular chemical element which differ in neutron number, and consequently in nucleon number, but have the same number of protons in their nuclei.

Protons

Positively charged subatomic particles found in the nucleus of an atom, defining the element's atomic number.

Osmium

A dense, hard, bluish-white transition metal in the platinum group that is the most dense naturally occurring element.

Isotope

A variant of a particular chemical element which differs in neutron number, though it shares the same number of protons.