Bobby Darling is the only employee of Atlantic Records, Inc. During the first week of January, Darling earned $2,600.00 and had federal and state income tax withholdings of $130.00 and $48.75, respectively. FICA taxes are 7.65 % on earnings up to $117,000. State and federal unemployment taxes for the period are $162.50 and $26.00, respectively. What is the employer's payroll tax expense for the week?

Agood for which demand increases as income rises is and a good for which demand increases as income falls is

Employees of dti, inc. worked 1,600 direct labor hours in january and 1,000 direct labor hours in february. dti expects to use 18,000 direct labor hours during the year, and expects to incur $22,500 of worker’s compensation insurance cost for the year. the cash payment for this cost will be paid in april. how much insurance premium should be allocated to products made in january and february?

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.