If we do not buy imported goods then they will not buy ours and without export revenue and foreign investments we would not be able to function financially. When exports increase so does the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). GDP is the dollar amount of all goods and services produced within the United States. When the GDP is high it signifies that our economy is healthy and stable. When companies can produce more due to demand they are able to hire more workers, which can lower the unemployment rate.
Factors In Different Environment Unit 1: The Business Environment Factors in Different Environments P5, M2: In this assignment I am going to describe the influence of two contrasting economic environments on business activities within Tesco. I will then compare the challenges to Tesco’s business activities with a selected organisation, in two different economic environments. Tesco is affected by the two contrasting economic environments of both China and Britain as Tesco carries out both of their business activities in both of these countries, which has an influence on the business. The influences that affect Tesco for operating their business in Britain and China are: * Inflation * Employment * GDP * Interest Rates * Changes in Government Policy * Affordability * Competition * Availability of Raw materials * Labour Tesco are also influenced by changes in supply and demand and global interaction. The level of inflation in Britain and China’s economic environment affect Tesco.
Recession is two consecutive quarters of negative economy growth. During recession, there is low level of demand because people don’t have much money to spend. So they look for cheaper products that they can afford. At this time businesses confidence gets low as people aren’t demanding for their products so they would have to cut out their productions as they don’t need to make as much products. At this time they would need to provide cheaper price to attract their consumers and to increase the demand.
The factory system affected American life in many ways. First, it helped the American economy grow because goods were cheaper, more people could buy them. As people bought more, the factories needed more workers and more workers meant more people who were earning money to buy things. Second, the factory system contributed to the growth of cities. A single factory might hire thousands of workers.
The outsourcing of jobs is not a bad thing for the company because it makes them more money, but for the people who don’t have what young people talk about as bank! Have to try and make something happened. Gas can run anywhere from $3.19- $3.79 and up in Texas alone. But yet major company’s want to outsourcing jobs, and capitalize on the little bit of money they gain. As they manage to indirectly take food off of Americans tables.
Social Responsibility Company Q seems to currently have an economic attitude toward social responsibility. An economic model is based on the traditional concept of business. If the business is providing a quality good or service, showing a profit and providing jobs then it is successful. Company Q is more concerned with profits and lost revenues then maximizing a positive impact. They have shown this by closing a few stores in a higher-crime-rate area because they were losing money, by only offering a very limited amount of health-conscience and organic products because they are high margin items and by declining to donate to the local food bank because of worries over lost revenues.
First of all, the government would be very pleased with the increase in the increase in taxes of cigarettes since the more people pay, the more taxes the government will collect. That way, the government will have a much higher income as a result of this price rise. On the other hand, consumers will not be pleased by this price rise since the will have to pay much more to buy the product, which means less of their total income. So overall, in the short-run, the tax rise is a very good thing whereas the total income for the government increases, allowing the government to improve the entire well being of the country and provide more public goods and owners make a higher profit. However in the long-run, this price raise is not enough to make people quit smoking so since cigarettes are a demerit good, it will have a negative effect on the environment and it will increase the number of health issues from second hand smoke, not to mention the high unemployment rate and less taxes for the government.
Chapter 13 discusses labor markets and the basic models of labor supply and demand but the labor market for unskilled workers is changing. For businesses, the labor supply curve has dramatically shifted to the right especially with the implementation of NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) and the rise of China. There is a surplus of labor supply so the business is able to go along the demand curve to the cheaper wage available, usually in another country. (See attached graph) This loss of jobs for the unskilled workers and increasingly for higher-educated workers is widening the income gap. This shifting of the labor market has other effects too, outside of the labor market.
If there is no minimum amount the company has to pay, it can save some costs that it might otherwise incur. 2. The company can hire more people at a lower income and in fact decrease unemployment 3. B. Deprives students and low skilled workers an opportunity to make an earning (Rector) 1. Minimum wage actually make low-income citizens and students worse off by pricing them out of a job due to their minimal skill sets and resources 2.
Many businesses do not realize the consequences of their actions when they hire older, more skilled employees for jobs just to save a few dollars. These businesses are slowly but surely destroying the future of the United States economy because it is easier and less costly to hire older employees that they do not have to spend money training. It is easy to think about how raising the minimum wage could be beneficial, but it is much more difficult to see how such a thing could leave devastating effects on the United States economy. It is important to fully think about the lasting effects of controversial topics such as this one concerning the raising of minimum wage, because there is an enormous chance that they will affect