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What is a code of conduct?
An attempt to "rationalize" a discipline in order to eliminate "unfair competition."
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What is a teenager?
This member of society lacks the skills necessary to enter the job market, and due to minimum wage, will be unlikely to procure work.
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What is the restriction of jobs?
The more this happens, the more companies are willing to pay for each paycheck.
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What is licensure?
A government monopoly created to control the flow of labor to restrict it.
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What are workers with only one available employer?
(example: Babe Ruth playing for the biggest MLB team at the time, the Yankees.)
These people are "highly paid and whose skills are so rare... that only one employer is big enough to take full advantage of them.
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What is privatizing a business?
The most effective way to ensure incentives and create innovation.
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What is "nowhere close?"
A member of a union works for this amount near the minimum wage.
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What is the American Medical Association (AMA)?
An example of flagrant monopoly in medicine through licensure.
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What is six percent?
This is the percentage that large companies provide to the national income through taxes.
(Hence, making the private sector important for our economy and government to function.) |
What are many available employers and competition?
The real protections for a worker with no assurance from an employer.
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What are the highly skilled and highly paid?
Labor unions benefit these workers.
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What is the minimum wage?
A discriminatory act that created a divide of unemployment between whites and blacks from 0% to 15-20% (in 1950 to 1980).
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What is protecting the consumer?
A justification for licensure.
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What is the government?
Unions rely on this body to make their ends meet and to pass accommodating bills.
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What is competition among workers?
This helps an employer to keep his wages low and to be able to hire many.
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What are other workers?
"The gains that strong unions win" are mainly for these members of society.
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What are violence and government assistance?
Ways in which a labor union can enforce a high wage rate for employers.
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What is the driving force behind licensure?
The workers' desire to increase demand for services with few ways to do it, causing a monopoly for services and inflating prices.
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What is federal employment and pensions?
"The result (of this) is a bureaucracy nearly devoid of incentives and largely beyond anyone's control..."
Wall Street Journal (Over one million of these type of workers are eligible for a raise, only 600 did not receive them (in 1980)) |
What is the consumer?
Competition is good for this person because it allows for the possibility to seek better goods or services elsewhere.
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What is collusion between employer and union?
This method proves highly effective with employers to time strikes and negotiating terms of agreements to profit themselves and benefits their members.
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What are poorly educated, unskilled laborers?
These people ultimately take the consequences of a high minimum wage.
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What is increasing the desire for a good or service from a certain group? (At the benefit of making more money short-term)
The reason for restricting entry into or the number of people in a profession. (Even if the cost is a lack of forward movement and innovation.)
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What is a monopoly (specifically in government capacity)?
This is when there is no competition in a certain market, so the workers become deincentivized which leads to a poor quality good or service without a forum of improvement.
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What is the free market?
This form of circular competition allows firms to hire more while being able to seek the best to improve productivity, and also proves beneficial for the worker who has the option to make more money through improving their labor.
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