Samantha retired from the fire department. She started working an hour or two a day at a paid job in the local hospital. Samantha is: Group of answer choices a discouraged worker. unemployed. not in the labor force. employed

You are looking at three different job options, one in Pennsylvania, one in Texas, and one in New York.   The offers are as follows:   Salary State tax rate Pennsylvania $62,000 3.07% Texas $64,000 0.00% New York $68,000 6.85%   What is the take home pay of the three options?  Which of these offers will you accept if you are only interested in maximize your after tax income?    Pennsylvania: Texas:  New York:    Job accepted:    Regardless of which job you take, you will have to pay federal income taxes.  Assuming you are offered $65,000 use the following tax brackets to determine the federal income tax you owe.   Tax Bracket Low end High end 10% $0 $9,225 15% $9,225 $37,450 25% $37,450 $90,750 28% $90,750 $189,300   TAX OWED:

Which of the following statements correctly describe discouraged workers? (If none of the choices apply, leave all of the checkboxes blank.) Check all that apply.   They are employed workers who want to earn higher wages.   They have not looked for a job in 6 weeks, but they would like a job and are available for work.   They have given up on looking for a job.   They are counted as part of the labor force by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Does the existence of unemployment insurance eliminate the economic costs of unemployment?

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Multiple choice answers A) shift to schedule A and remain at $500 B) rise from $440 to $500 C) rise from $500 to $620 D) fall from $500 to $440

Individuals who want to work, but have given up searching for a job because of limited prospects, are known as discouraged workers. marginally attached workers. frictionally unemployed. This group, consisting of individuals who would like to work but have not looked for work during the past four weeks, is included among the structurally unemployed. marginally attached workers. discouraged workers. minimally attractive workers. Individuals who are involuntarily working part‑time are considered underemployed. structurally unemployed. marginally employed. frictionally unemployed. By excluding the groups identified in the previous questions, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics calculation methods accurately reflect the true level of unemployment. overstate the true level of unemployment. understate the true level of unemployment.

A member of the labor force is defined as: Someone already employed or actively seeking work. someone already employed on a full-time basis. O someone who is employed. someone who is employed on a part-time basis. someone who is above the age of 16.

HVAC Services Inc. employs two hundred workers. Workers who lose their jobs with HVAC may have a right to continued health-care coverage under the company's group plan. If so, th premiums for the continued coverage are paid by the employer. the still-employed workers contributions. the unemployed workers. the federal government.

You May Be Paid More (or Less) Than You Think It’s so hard to put a price on happiness, isn’t it? But if you’ve ever had to choose between a job you like and a better-paying one that you like less, you probably wished some economist would tell you how much job satisfaction is worth. Trust in management is by far the biggest component to consider. Say you get a new boss and your trust in management goes up a bit (say, up 1 point on a 10-point scale). That’s like getting a 36-percent pay raise. In other words, that increased level of trust will boost your level of overall satisfaction in life by about the same amount as a 36-percent raise would. a. Measure trust in management on a 10-point scale, measure pay on the same 10-point scale, and think of them as two goods. Sketch an indifference curve (with trust on the x -axis) that is consistent with the news clip. b. What is the marginal rate of substitution between trust in management and pay according to this…