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Week 4: FOPs, GDP and Keynesian model Flashcards

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Marginal Product

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dTP/dL

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Backward-bending supply curve

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Substitution effect: with higher wages, the price of leisure increases compared to working, thus one works more
Income effect: higher wages result in a higher demand for goods including leisure. More leisure means work less

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Skill premium

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wage difference between high-skilled and low-skilled labour

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Difference low-skilled and high-skilled labour in economic terms

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VMP is higher for high-skilled labour (demand is higher)

High skilled labour has higher opportunity costs (supply is lower)

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Four consequences of minimum wage

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  1. amount of people working falls
  2. important for low-skilled labour
  3. result in less demand and more supply
  4. welfare loss (like price floors)
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Contrasting arguments to idea that governments strive towards maximisation of welfare

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  1. Corruption
  2. Budget maximisation of civil servants
  3. Pressure groups have more influence than large majority
  4. no world government, competition between states
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Gross domestic product definition

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market value of all final goods and services produced within a country in a given time period, usually a year

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Two approaches to measure GDP

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Aggregate income and aggregate expenditure

GDP= AE=AI

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GDP ‘s four parts

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  1. market value
  2. final goods and services
  3. produced within a country
  4. in a given time period
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Income approach

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to calculate GDP
W+P+M+(taxes-subsidies)
W= employee compensation
P= profit
M= mixed income
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National income accounting identity

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C+G+I+X-M

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Circular flow of expenditure and income formula

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(S-I)+(T-G)= (X-M)

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Real GDP

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Value of final goods and services produced in a given year when valued at the prices of a base year

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Nominal GDP

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value of final goods and services produced in a given year when valued at the prices of that year

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Two main purposes of use of real GDP

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  • compare standard of living over time

- compare standard of living across countries

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Four limitations of real GDP

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  • household production
  • underground economic activity
  • leisure time
  • environmental quality
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Two problems of unemployment

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  • lost incomes and production

- lost human capital

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Natural employment, its definition and the subcategories

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unemployment that arises from frictions and structural change when there is no cyclical unemployment
structural + frictional unemployment

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Frictional unemployment

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unemployment arising from people entering and leaving workforce and from ongoing process of job creation and destruction.

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structural unemployment

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unemployment arising from technology or international competition changethe skills needed to perform jobs or change the location of jobs

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cyclical unemployment

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higher than normal unemployment at a business cycle through and the lower than normal unemployment at a business cycle peak

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Formula multiplier

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change in equilibrium expenditure/ change in autonomous expenditure

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Formula Marginal propensity to consume

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Formula Marginal propensity to Save

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Growth rate formula for real GDP
(GDP (t+1)-GDP(t))/ GDP(t)
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Four factors of production
1. labour 2. capital 3. land 4. entrepreneurship
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labour service
physical + mental work effort that people supply to produce goods and services
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casual labour
labour services traded on day-by-day basis
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rental rate
price in capital services market
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capital
tools, instruments, machines, buildings and other things used to produce goods and services
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Derived demand
demand for a FOP. The quantity demanded for FOP depends on a firm's output decision
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Value of Marginal Product
MP/P | tells what an additional worker costs a firm
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Value of Marginal Product and wage rate
VMP= wage rate : maximum profit VMP> wage rate : additional worker will increase profit VMP< wage rate : firing one employee would give more profit
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Three factors for change in demand for labour
1. Price of a firm's output as it influences VMP > shift D for L curve 2. Other FOP prices > shift along D for L curve 3. Technology: decreases d for some types of labour, increases for otehrs
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Reservation wage
lowest wage rate at which a worker would be willing to accept a particular type of job
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Effects labour market with minimum wage
creates unemployment as it creates a surplus of labour unfairness as it blocks voluntary change minimum wage is inefficient
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Explanation of inequality by human capital differences
High income households tend to be better educated, middle-aged education correlates directly with human capital age correlates indirectly with human capital due to more experience
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effect of technological change in inequality
trend
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Globalisation: definition and consequences
entry of developing countries > lower price of manufactured goods > lower prices for firms' output > decrease in VMP> decrease D for their labour > wage rate falls, employment shrinks > increase demand for high-skilled labour, VMP increase, wage rate rises, employment opportunities for high-skilled workers expand
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Three types of income taxes
progressive income tax: taxing income at an average rate increasing as income increases regressive income tax: taxing income at an average rate decreasing as income increases proportional income tax: taxing income at a constant average rate regardless of the level of income
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benefit payment, definition and three types
redistribute income by making direct payments to those with low incomes Income support payments: wide range of payments to raise household incomes and reduce poverty tax credit: method of helping low-income employed households State pension: widely used in EU- pension payed out of current taxes
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Subsidised welfare services
goods and services provided by government at prices below MC | improves access to good-quality healthcare and education + reduces inequality in health status and basic human capital
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Three income redistribution types
1. income taxes 2. subsidised welfare services 3. benefit payment
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Two key influences on demand for non-renewable resources
1. VMP, the greater the quantity of resource used, the smaller is VMP of the resource 2. expected future price of resource: speculative influence resource used as example: oil
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Three key influences on supply of non-renewable natural resource
1. known reserves of resource 2. scale of current production facilities 3. expected future price of resource: the higher the expected price, the lower the current supply
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hotelling principle
traders expect price of a non-renewable natural resource to rise at rate equal to interest rate
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Definition and formula unemployment rate
percentage of economically active people who're unemployed number of people unemployed/workforce*100
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Workforce
number of employed and unemployed people
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Employment rate
percentage of people of working age who have jobs number of people employed/ working-age population * 100
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Full employment
Situation where unemployment rate equals natural employment rate
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Four factors influencing natural employment rate
1. age distribution of the population young population: high level of frictional unemployment 2. Scale of structural change 3. Real wage rate: natural unemployment affected, minimum wage and efficiency wage bring unemployment 4. unemployment benefits increase natural unemployment rate by lowering opportunity cost of job search
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Factors influencing consumption expenditure
1. disposable income 2. wealth 3. real interest rate 4. expected future income

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