An awareness that there is a connection between losing your job and the high unemployment rate where you live is an example of a. commonsense knowledge. b. intuition. c. the functionalist perspective. d. the sociological imagination.

Alocation analysis has been narrowed down to two locations, akron and boston. the main factors in the decision will be the supply of raw materials, which has a weight of .50, transportation cost, which has a weight of .40, and labor cost, which has a weight of .10. the scores for raw materials, transportation, and labor are for akron 60, 80, and 70, respectively; for boston 70, 50, and 90, respectively. given this information and a minimum acceptable composite score of 75, we can say that the manager should:

Suppose the price of frozen yogurt, a substitute for ice cream, increases. what happens to equilibrium price and quantity of ice cream? a. the price and quantity of ice cream both increase b. the price and quantity of ice cream both decrease c. the price of ice cream increases and the quantity decreases d. the price of ice cream decreases and the quantity increases

Ajustification for job training programs is that they improve worker productivity. suppose that you are asked to evaluate whether more job training makes workers more productive. however, rather than having data on individual workers, you have access to data on manufacturing firms in ohio. in particu- lar, for each firm, you have information on hours of job training per worker (training) and number of nondefective items produced per worker hour (output). (i) carefully state the ceteris paribus thought experiment underlying this policy question. (ii) does it seem likely that a firm’s decision to train its workers will be independent of worker characteristics? what are some of those measurable and unmeasurable worker characteristics? (iii) name a factor other than worker characteristics that can affect worker productivity. (iv) if you find a positive correlation between output and training, would you have convincingly established that job training makes workers more productive? explain.