Identify the most important problems the UAE has been having in its labor market, what efforts have been made to deal with the problems and assess their effectiveness.

The UAE Labour Market

Identify the most important problems the UAE has been having in its labor market, what efforts have been made to deal with the problems and assess their effectiveness. Add references in APA format

Using these two sources, write a policy brief that states your position on outsourcing education in low- and middle-income countries.

Policy Brief 2

The policy brief should be between one and two pages (no submissions over two pages will be graded). Please remember to cite appropriately any additional source you use.

Remember to submit to Canvas before 2:30 pm on the due date.

Read the article posted on Canvas related to outsourcing education in low- and middle-income countries and the following article:

  • https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/2016-08-09/worldwide-public-education-is-up-for-sale

Using these two sources (or any others brought up in lecture), write a policy brief that states your position on outsourcing education in low- and middle-income countries.

  1. [20 points] Include a summary of the pros and cons of contracting education to private organizations from the policy makers’ perspective. [10 points pros and 10 points cons]
  1. [10 points] Based on the articles, would you recommend contracting education to private organizations (outsourcing) be implemented in a low-income country and why? Clearly lay out the factors that are important for your recommendation.

 

Decide how to organize your material. Consider alternatives to a long list of chronological topics. Consider organizing by importance, the similarity of topics, or by something else.

Bitcoin and the Economic Views of Douglas Diamond

Write about your assigned economist: Kenneth Rogoff, Eric Maskin, Lawrence Summers, or Paul Krugman. You can use this title for the paper or select your own.

Two Sections are Due in 3 weeks on November 4th at noon

  • Begin with your current draft.

Remove everything I wrote as instructions.

Make sure all your text is now in black – no read.

  • Rewrite/reorganize your responses into an overview of the economics of bitcoin and blockchain. You should not include the questions I asked originally; those were just there to prompt your thinking. This will be the first section of your paper; be sure to give it a title. It should be at least three pages following the formatting from the previous writing assignment.
  • Write a new section explaining the economic theories of your economist.

Base your discussion on the references you already selected; it is not about bitcoin or blockchain. Start reading now!

The section might resemble the discussion of the recent Nobel Prize winners in Economics distributed in class and available here.

https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2022/10/popular-economicsciencesprize2022.pdf

 

Be sure you understand the material; avoid just pasting sentences and terms. Be sure to correctly footnote or cite any direct quotes.

Decide how to organize your material. Consider alternatives to a long list of chronological topics. Consider organizing by importance, the similarity of topics, or by something else.

This will be the second section of your paper; be sure to give it a title. It should be at least three pages following the formatting from the previous writing assignment.

  • Upload the Word document by noon on November 4th

Carefully edit both sections and process them with Grammarly. You will lose points if there are more than 30 Grammarly issues in your writing. Submit a Word document to Blackboard.

Two More Sections – meet with your group now!

  • Your group will lead a class discussion of how the economic theories of your economist relate to bitcoin, blockchain, and virtual currency more broadly.

Scheduled for Wednesday November 30th, Friday December 2nd, and Monday December 5th (attendance on all days is mandatory)

Include statements made by the economist on this topic, if any.

Go beyond that and explain how the theories relate.

Thirty minutes, three slides, everyone must participate in developing the discussion; everyone need not speak.

 

This will be the third section of your paper and an additional three pages.

  • The fourth section of your paper compares the bitcoin views of your economist with the others. You need to gather information from the other presentations to write this. It will be another three pages.
  • Finally, you will write an introduction and a conclusion; they will be a half page each.
  • Complete paper due at noon on Sunday December 11th

Edit it carefully and process it using Grammarly.

The paper will have 9-10 pages of material.

  • Cover page
  • Introduction: one-half page without a title
  • Section 1: three pages on the economic forces of bitcoin; include the title of your choice.
  • Section 2: three pages on the economic theories of your economist; include the title of your choice.
  • Section 3: three pages on the implications for bitcoin of the economic theories of your economist; include the title of your choice.
  • Section 4: three pages comparing your economist to the other three discussed in class; include the title of your choice.
  • Conclusion: one-half page with the title “Conclusion.”
  • References: in APA format with the title “References.”

 

 

Explain how these concepts describe the benefits and costs of international trade. What is it and how does it affect the decision-making process in our economic system?

Week 1 Discussion

Your son is graduating from high school and is about to enter the work force. He has developed a strong curiosity about our economic system and how it works. Because you have a good understanding of basic economics, he has asked you to explain several concepts that are essential to an understanding of how the economy works. Your son has asked you to explain the following concepts and ideas:

Absolute and comparative advantage: Explain how these concepts describe the benefits and costs of international trade.
“Invisible hand”: What is it and how does it affect the decision-making process in our economic system?
Circular flow diagram: Include the government sector in your explanation, a description of the roles that each participant plays in the economy, and how the different sectors interact in the markets.
The Production Possibilities model: Provide an example and include a summary of what the model is illustrating and the economic implications for the economy.
Microeconomics and macroeconomics: Explain the differences between the two and why economics is divided into these two subdivisions.

Deliverables:

Prepare a 5-6 page Microsoft Word document that addresses the above-noted concerns and meets APA standards.
Include a summary section in your report that contains 5-7 bullet points identifying your major findings or conclusions of your paper.
Submit the summary section as your initial post in the Discussion Area by the due date assigned. Include the full report as an attachment to your posting.
By the end of the week, comment on at least two other presentations and identify the strengths and weaknesses of each.
All submissions must be original and all resources must be properly acknowledged.

Show and explain the situation in which a profit maximizing, perfectly competitive firm is earning a negative profit and chooses to continue to produce in the short-run.

Economic profit maximization

Graph the profit maximization for a perfectly competitive firm. Show equilibrium profit and quantity.

  1. Show and explain the situation in which a profit maximizing, perfectly competitive firm is earning a positive economic profit. Be sure to label the profit maximizing level of output and shade in the area that represents profit.
  2. Show and explain the situation in which a profit maximizing, perfectly competitive firm is earning a negative profit and chooses to continue to produce in the short-run.
  3. Show and explain how B would change if the firm chose to shut down.

 

Write in brief about the firm chosen and explain how the firm is trying to create a monopoly or dominating the market? Elaborate your opinion, why we as a society should worry about a firm trying to create a monopoly?

Assignment Questions:

 Q1. You have been hired as an economic consultant by a price-taking (a perfectly competitive) firm that produces T-shirts. The firm already has a factory, so it is operating in the short-run. The price of T-shirt is $9, the hourly wage is $24, and each T-shirt requires $1 worth of material. The following table shows the relationship between the number of workers and output of T-shirts.

Workers 10 11 12 13 14 15
Output 5 29 41 47 50 52
Labor cost            
Material cost            
Fixed cost $2 $2 $2 $2 $2 $2
Total cost            
Marginal cost            

 

  1. Fill in the blanks in the table. (3 points)
  2. What is the profit maximizing output? [ students may use marginal approach] (1 points)

Note: For answering question-1 (a) and (b) students are required to show all possible calculations.

Q2. See around you and pick up a firm which is either dominating the market or trying to create monopoly.

  • (a) Write in brief about the firm chosen and explain how the firm is trying to create a monopoly or dominating the market? (2 points)
  • (b) Elaborate your opinion, why we as a society should worry about a firm trying to create a monopoly? (2points)
  • (c) Discuss some policy options a government could have to intervene in such market and prevent the monopoly creation. (2points)

 

 

Discuss the impact of Vision 2030 on the unemployment rate in the kingdom?

Vision 2030

Read the article by using the following link:

https://www.spa.gov.sa/viewfullstory.php?lang=en&newsid=2388275#2388275

Then answer the questions:

Discuss the impact of Vision 2030 on the unemployment rate in the kingdom (How Vision 2030 has helped in creating new employment opportunities)?

 

Choose a journal article related to project status reporting, budgeting, or risk analysis. Write a 2-3 page review of your chosen journal article.

Project status

Choose a journal article related to project status reporting, budgeting, or risk analysis (do not re-use a journal from a prior course). Write a 2-3 page review of your chosen journal article.  Choose a peer reviewed journal, and an article that has been published in the past five (5) years.

The review should contain the journal article title, author’s name and year of publication.

Your paper should contain the following headings:

  • Introduction
  • Summary of the article
  • Relevant points made by the author
  • Critique of the article
  • Application of the concepts in the article

You are going to review a single journal article, therefore your reference page should only contain the information from the article you reviewed. There is no need to introduce other journals into this paper. APA Format

 

Write an essay on a relevant macroeconomic topic (e.g., the 2021-22 ináation surge, economics of COVID-19, unconventional monetary policies, digital currencies, Önancial crises, asset bubbles, life satisfaction, happiness, and subjective well-being, productivity slow- down, secular stagnation, income inequality, job polarization).

Macroeconomic

Students will be encouraged to write an essay on a relevant macroeconomic topic (e.g., the 2021-22 ináation surge, economics of COVID-19, unconventional monetary policies, digital currencies, Önancial crises, asset bubbles, life satisfaction, happiness, and subjective well-being, productivity slow- down, secular stagnation, income inequality, job polarization).

What is the firm’s short-run production function? What is different about these AP and MP curves? Do they look like regular AP and MP curves? Does the firm experience diminishing marginal returns? Why or why not. Explain.

Homework 2 ECO3101 Fall 2022

1. Consider the graph below which illustrates a given firm’s AP and MP curves:

  • a. At what level of output is AVC minimized? Explain your answer.
  • b. When 15 workers are hired, what is the firm’s AVC if w = 300?
  • c. When 15 workers are hired, what is the firm’s SMC if w = 300?
  • d. When 40 workers are hired, is AVC increasing or decresing? Explain your answer.AP, MP

L

30

AP

MP

0

60

4010

Average and marginal product of labor

Labor

20 50

80

20

40

 

 

2. Suppose the firm’s production function is Q = 2KL where Q is units of output, K is units of capital and L is units of labor. Let K be fixed at 2 units, i.e., 𝐾̅ = 2.

  • a. What is the firm’s short-run production function?
  • b. Derive and graph the firm’s Average Product curve and the Marginal Product curve. Put AP and MP in the same graph.
  • c. What is different about these AP and MP curves? Do they look like regular AP and MP curves?
  • d. Does the firm experience diminishing marginal returns? Why or why not. Explain.

3. Florida Fabrication and Design produces industrial supplies. After two quarters of increasing levels of production, the CEO was upset to learn that, during this time of expansion, the marginal productivity of the newly hired workers declined. Believing that the new works were either lazy or ineffectively supervised (or possibly both!), the CEO instructed the factory foreman to “crack down” on the new workers to bring their productivity levels up.

Explain carefully in terms of production economics why it might be that no amount of “cracking down” can increase marginal worker productivity