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Low income families and high income families consist of an extensive income difference. However, the share of households in the mid-income span has descended to fewer than half. “Nationwide, the average income rose 9.0 percent for the top fifth of families, edged up 1.3 percent for those in the middle fifth, and fell 2.5 percent for those in the bottom fifth of the income scale.” (PBN.com). Turner 2 Due to the inconsistency related to income brackets, many families fall into a category known as poverty. Poverty has plagued mankind all through history, generating numerous excuses for its presence.
g. Over what range of the variable input usage do decreasing marginal returns exist? When k is greater than 3. h. Over what range of input usage do negative marginal returns exist? When k is greater than 7. * 5. A manager hires labor and rents capital equipment in a very competitive market.
Spetz concludes that the "data suggest that some hospitals staff substantially lower than the state average. The costs of minimum staffing mandates could be quite large, particularly in certain regions of
In the UK and USA the number of live births has decreased from 5 per woman in the 1880’s to 2 in the 2000’s. Male mortality. Men are more likely to take part in activities such as hazardous work and drinking alcohol that may damage their health (Waldron, 1976 cited by Scambler, 1997). Recent changes. Women have not modified their smoking habits as much as men have.
In my opinion they were not affected mainly by laziness, but by the general economic slump at the time. I think this because firstly, at this period in history the population of England was growing at an exponential rate. I know this because there were approximately ‘4 million people in 1600, and it grew to about 5 ½ million by 1700’ (localhistories.org), which therefore shows that the population was increasing. I can therefore infer from this that this made people poorer due to three major ideas. Firstly, as more people were around to do work, it meant that employers could afford to pay workers less, due to the idea that there would always be others to take their place, and also due to the idea that, as more people were trying to get certain jobs, it meant that more people would be counted as unemployed.
* Risk premium: using the geometric mean from 1926 to 1999 might be problematic, since the risk premium of recent decades is obviously lower than earlier (stated in the lecture). So we think a range of 3% to 5% is more reasonable. * Cost of Debt: Joanna’s calculation is based on the items on the income statement. However, when calculating cost of debt, we should consider the opportunity cost rather than the accounting cost. We should perceive the opportunity cost as the return investors will expect to earn somewhere else when accepting similar risk.
Fiscal Policy vs. Monetary Policy Rolinda Thomas Professor Hiltsje van Dijk Ecconomics 221 25 November 2009 Outline I. Introduction II. Business Cycle A. Description of the business cycle B. Phases of the business cycle III.
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The median average income for married couples with children was three times greater and, for the relatively few single-father families, nearly one and a half times greater. Well over a third (38.5%) of single-mother families lived below the poverty threshold. This is more than four and a half times the rate for married couples with children and also considerably higher than the rate for single-father families. About half the single-mother families below the poverty threshold were in “extreme poverty,” i.e., had incomes below 50% of the threshold. Women were a large majority (79.6%) of the adults with children who were in emergency shelters.