試題詳解

9. Maria earns $12 per hour in her current job and works 35 hours a week. Her disutility of effort is equivalent to a cost of $2 per hour of work. If she loses her job, she will receive unemployment benefit equivalent to $6 per hour. Additionally, being unemployed has psychological and social costs equivalent to $1 per hour. Then:
(A) The employment rent per hour is $3.
(B) Maria’s reservation wage is $6 per hour.
(C) If she is offered a job with the wage $11 and disutility of $0,5, she will refuse.
(D) If she is offered a job with the wage $14 and disutility of $3, she will take it.