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Category: Income Inequality
New technology in the form of computer spreadsheets has increased the productivity of accountants. This will cause ?
A. the demand curve for accountants to shift to the right, since the productivity of accountants has increased
B. firms to move up their demand curves for accountants
C. the demand curve for accountants to shift to the left, since it requires fewer accountants than it did before to do the same amount of work.
D. firms to move down their demand curves for accountants
If labour market discrimination crowds women into a limited number of occupations so that the number of occupations available to men increases, then ?
A. wages of men will be higher but the marginal productivity of men will be lower than it otherwise would be
B. the wages of men will be lower but the marginal productivity of men will be higher than it otherwise would be
C. both the wages and the marginal productivity of men will be lower than they otherwise would be
D. both the wages and the marginal productivity of men will be higher than they otherwise would be
As the wage rate per hour increases, the opportunity cost of leisure ?
A. remains constant
B. increases since the cost of forgoing one hour of work increases
C. decreases since the customer now has more income to spend
D. may increase of decrease depending on the individual’s preferences.
Vertical equity holds that ?
A. those will equal ability to pay should bear equal tax burdens.
B. those who benefit the most from government service should bear the higher tax burden
C. those with equal ability to pay should bear unequal burdens
D. those with greater ability to pay should pay more
Tax shifting ?
A. is the way in which a tax is structured
B. occurs when households can alter their behaviour and do something to avoid paying tax
C. occurs when taxes cause prices to increase but wages to fall.
D. is the ultimate distribution of a tax’s burden
The Benazir Benefit income Scheme is a good example of ?
A. a benefit in kind.
B. a means tested cash benefit
C. a universal (social insurance based) benefit
D. none of the above
A tax whose burden is the same proportion of income for all households is ?
A. an equal tax
B. a proportional tax
C. a progressive tax
D. a regressive tax
Tax incidence is the ?
A. structure of the tax.
B. ultimate distribution of a tax’s burden
C. behaviour of shifting the tax to another party
D. measure of the impact the tax has on employment and output
An unemployed salesperson has been offered a job paying Rs500 a week. He turns that job down and continues to search for another job that pays more. The cost of this continued search is ?
A. the Rs500 weekly salary that he has forgone to search for another job
B. The Rs500 weekly salary that he has forgone and the monetary costs incurred by continuing to search
C. Rs difference between the weekly salary he finally accepts and the Rs500 weekly salary that he has forgone
D. Rs0, since he is currently unemployed
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