The second fallacy that was enlightening was how minimum wage works. In this crazy year before the next presidential election‚ minimum wage has become a hot button issue. The problem with politics is that no one ever explains the economics of minimum wage. They just throw out policy ideas without actually informing the voting public on how they came to a conclusion. After learning about supply and demand of work force‚ it finally cleared up all the misinformation that I have heard. The greatest thing
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FINA0301GH | FINA2322GH Spring Semester‚ 2015 Derivatives School of Economics and Finance The University of Hong Kong Notes on homework assignments: Students should form groups of four to five members to work on the assignments together. Group switching is not allowed. Mandatory peer review will be carried out near the end of the semester. It is not necessary to computer-type the solution. However‚ the hand-written version has to be reader-friendly. Hard copies of the solutions must be dropped
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Minimum Wage – Pro Side BCOM/275October 28‚ 2014Minimum Wage – Pro Side A wage is a compensation‚ usually thru an agreement (contract) between employees and employers for the performance of a work. Numerous variances happen in wage rates. One important reason is that labor is not a consistent factor. Each worker is a unique aspect of production possessing a distinctive set of work characteristics. “The goal in establishing minimum wages has been to assure wage earners a standard of living above
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The national unemployment rate fell to 4.4 percent in October the lowest level of unemployment since May 2001. This is a sign of unexpected strength in the job market. [The unemployment rate is based on a survey of households‚ rather than the survey of employers used to calculate the payroll number. Unemployment does not include full-time students‚ the retired‚ children‚ or those not actively looking for a paying job.] The unemployment level is defined as the labor force minus the number of people
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Labor rate variance is the difference between the actual labor rate and the applied overhead rate (standard rate multiplied by the number of actual hours worked). Consider this and respond to the following: • "Our workers are all under labor contracts. Therefore‚ our labor rate variance is bound to be zero." Do you agree or disagree that the labor rate variance will be zero if all workers are under labor contracts? Explain giving reasons. The concept of labor rate variance and its application
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can be defined as the number of people (of working age) who are willing and available to work at current wage rates‚ but not currently employed • Unemployment rate: the percentage of the labour force without a job but registered as being willing and available for work • Labour force: those people holding a job or registered as being willing and available for work • Participation rate: the percentage of the population of working age declaring themselves to be in the labour force TYPES
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lack of job opening in our society. Even those who are fresh graduates in college are hard to get job‚ mostly those graduated in college are jobless and they are vacant only in their house. This is the reason why Philippines tackles unemployment rate in economic crisis. Once‚ there are job openings that need many options and requirements‚ so other people are not qualified of it and they may experience hard getting a job. Also‚ because of unemployment crisis here in Philippines‚ mostly Filipino
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of unemployment in Nigeria. The data used in this study is of two type primary and secondary data. However‚ for the primary data the questionnaire was used to solicit responses from the respondents. In conclusion economic recession‚ governmental policy‚ employment of expatriates and trade union wage demand increase the rate of unemployment. The study emphasis that planning for human resources use in Nigeria has been based on guesswork and needs reevaluation. Keywords: Unemployment‚ Human resource
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Minimum Wage A minimum wage is the lowest hourly wage that employers have to compensate the workers for their service. Currently the federal minimum wage is $7.25 per hour. However‚ many states also have their own minimum wage laws. In those instances‚ the employee is entitled to the higher of the two minimum wages. In this paper we will discuss the brief history of the minimum wage law and its current legislation. We will also analyze the pros and cons of raising the minimum wage‚ and the
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In the article “Would raising the minimum wage help alleviate poverty”‚ David Cooper makes a valid point on the subject. Cooper talks about how he believes the minimum wage should be raised because he thinks it will help end poverty. In his column he also gives statistics on why it would be better to raise the minimum wage. As stated in the pros column written by David Cooper‚ minimum wage should be raised to help people in poverty‚ help people pay for education‚ and to allow people to have
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