5. Consider an industry employing skilled technicians and low-skilled workers together with machines to produce a good.

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5. Consider an industry employing skilled technicians and low-skilled workers together with machines to produce a good. A new technology comes along that performs the low-skill tasks, but needs more maintenance. How would the adoption of this technology affect the following?

a. The wage for skilled technicians

b. A firm’s demand for low-skilled workers

c. Suppose the market price of the product increases. How would this affect the equilibrium in the labor market?

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Microeconomics

ISBN: 9781292214351

2nd Global Edition

Authors: Daron Acemoglu, David Laibson, John List

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