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CHAPTER 4 Resources, Comparative Advantage, and Income Distribution 83 myeconlab EMS 1. In the United States where land is cheap, the ratio of land to labor used in cattle raising is higher than that of land used in wheat growing. But in more crowded countries where land is expensive and labor is cheap, it is common to raise cows by using less land and more labor than Americans use to grow wheat. Can we still say that raising cattle is land-intensive compared with farming wheat? Why or why not? 2. Suppose that at current factor prices cloth is produced using 20 hours of labor for each acre of land, and food is produced using only 5 hours of labor per acre of land. a. Suppose that the economy's total resources are 600 hours of labor and 60 acres of land. Use a diagram to determine the allocation of resources. b. Now suppose that the labor supply increases first to 800, then 1,000, then 1,200 hours. Using a diagram like Figure 4-9, trace out the changing allocation of resources. c. What would happen if the labor supply were to increase even further? 3. "The world's poorest countries cannot find anything to export. There is no resource that is abundant-certainly not capital or land, and in small poor nations not even labor is abundant." Discuss. 4. The U.S. labor movement-which mostly represents blue-collar workers rather than professionals and highly educated workers-has traditionally favored limits on imports from less-affluent countries. Is this a shortsighted policy or a rational one in view of the interests of union members? How does the answer depend on the model of trade? 5. Recently, computer programmers in developing countries such as India have begun doing work formerly done in the United States. This shift has undoubtedly led to substantial pay cuts for some programmers in the United States. Answer the following two questions: How is this possible when the wages of skilled labor are rising in the United States as a whole? What argument would trade economists make against seeing these wage cuts as a reason to block outsourcing of computer programming? 6. Explain why the Leontief paradox and the more recent Bowen, Leamer, and Sveikauskas results reported in the text contradict the factor-proportions theory. 7. In the discussion of empirical results on the Heckscher-Ohlin model, we noted that recent work suggests that the efficiency of factors of production seems to differ inter- nationally. Explain how this would affect the concept of factor-price equalization. R READING