It's so hard to put a price on happiness, isn't it? But if you've ever had to choose between a job you like and a better-paying one that you like less, you probably wished some economist would tell you how much job satisfaction is worth. Trust in management is by far the biggest component to consider. Say you get a new boss and your trust in management goes up a bit (say, up 1 point on a 10-point scale).
That's like getting a 36 percent pay raise. In other words, that increased level of trust will boost your level of overall satisfaction in life by about the same amount as a 36 percent raise would.
a. Measure trust in management on a 10-point scale, measure pay on the same 10-point scale, and think of them as two goods.
Sketch an indifference curve (with trust on the x-axis) that is consistent with the news clip.
b. What is the marginal rate of substitution between trust in management and pay according to this news clip?
c. What does the news clip imply about the principle of diminishing marginal rate of substitution? Is that implication likely to be correct?