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.Management Sciences
Category: International Factor Movements And Multinational Corporations
The migration of employable workers from low-paying nations to high-paying nations tends to decrease ?
A. total wage income in the world
B. wage disparities
C. business or capitalist income in the world
D. the productivity of labor
Accusations of American labor unions against U.S multinational firms include all of the following except ?
A. enjoy unfair advantage in taxation
B. export jobs by shifting technology overseas
C. export jobs by shifting investment overseas
D. operating at output levels where scale economies occur
Firms undertake multinational operations in order to ?
A. hire low-income workers
B. manufacture in nations they have difficult exporting to
C. obtain necessary factor inputs
D. All of the above
Multinational corporations face problems since they ?
A. cannot benefit from the advantage of comparative advantage
B. may raise political problems in countries where their subsidiaries operate
C. can only invest at home but not overseas
D. can only invest overseas but not at home
Which business device involves the creation of a new business by two or more companies often for a limited period of time ?
A. multinational corporation
B. international joint venture
C. horizontal merger
D. vertical merger
American labor unions have maintained that U.S multinational corporations have been ?
A. exporting American jobs by investing overseas
B. exporting American jobs by keeping investment in the U.S
C. importing cheap foreign workers by shifting U.S investment overseas
D. importing cheap foreign workers by keeping U.S investment at home
The market power effect of an international joint venture can lead to welfare losses for the domestic economy unless offset by cost reductions. Which type of cost reduction would not lead to offsetting welfare gains for the overall economy ?
A. R&D generating welfare improved technology
B. development of more productive machinery
C. new work rules promoting workers efficiency
D. lower wages extracted from workers
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