The following information about the payroll for the week ended December 30 was obtained from the records of Saine Co.: Salaries:
Deductions: Sales salaries $319,000 Income tax withheld $115,632 Warehouse salaries 175,000 U.S. savings bonds 14,454 Office salaries 163,000 Group insurance 11,826 $657,000 Tax rates assumed: Social security, 6% Medicare, 1.5% State unemployment (employer only), 5.4% Federal unemployment (employer only), 0.8%
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Explanation:
Labor, L = 2000; Capital, K = 3000
Labour constraint,
Capital constraint ,
Solving the equation further, we get
- The range for the relative price of cloth such that the economy produces both cloth and food is 2/3 and 2
- Low cloth production → economy will use relatively more labor to produce cloth → opportunity cost of cloth is 2/3rd units of food.
- High cloth production → economy dips on labor → taking capital away from food production → raising opportunity cost of cloth to 2 units of food.
- If relative price of cloth lies between 2/3 and 2 units of food, the economy produces both goods.
- If the price of cloth decreases below 2/3 → complete specialization in food production → low compensation for producing cloth
- If the price of cloth rises above 2 → complete specialization in cloth production → low compensation for producing food