Author Question: Pennsylvania's largest grower of fresh-to-market tomatoes announced in March 2009 he will no longer ... (Read 74 times)

biggirl4568 · **on:** Jun 29, 2018

Pennsylvania's largest grower of fresh-to-market tomatoes announced in March 2009 he will no longer produce the crop because he can't find enough workers to harvest it. Though his tomato pickers made an average of 16.

59 per hour last year, he said the relatively high wage is not enough to attract local labor to work the fields. In the market for tomato workers, what is TRUE? A) 16.59 is above the equilibrium wage rate
B) 16.59 is the equilibrium wage rate
C) 16.59 is below the equilibrium wage rate
D) Cannot determine where the equilibrium wage rate is in comparison to 16.59 without more information.

Question 2

In the above figure, between 20 and 25 units per hour, the firm experiences

A) economies of scale.
B) diseconomies of scale.
C) constant returns to scale.
D) increasing total fixed costs.