You purchased a round-trip ticket to a friend’s wedding in Cleveland on Saturday for $400, but on Sunday you discover your return flight is canceled due to weather. The airline will not be able to get you back home until late Monday but Greyhound has an overnight bus route that arrives at 6:00am Monday for $60. What is the opportunity cost of missing work on Monday? Explain your answer with the concepts of sunk cost and opportunity cost.

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.

What two things do you consider when evaluating the time value of money

Do it! review 16-3 the assembly department for right pens has the following production data for the current month. beginning work in process units transferred out ending work in process 0 22,500 16,000 materials are entered at the beginning of the process. the ending work in process units are 70% complete as to conversion costs. compute the equivalent units of production for (a) materials and (b) conversion costs. materials conversion costs the equivalent units of production