On the buses with Evan
The article linked to below from Evan Davis’s blog starts with the following multiple choice question:
“What effect do you think it has, if a British bus company employs a bus driver from overseas?
a) it takes away the job of a British bus driver?
b) it increases the number of bus drivers we have?
c) it undercuts the wages of British bus drivers?
d) it reduces bus fares for British passengers?”
What is your answer?
On the buses BBC News Online (5/11/07)
Questions
| 1. | Explain what is meant by the phrase “lump of labour fallacy”. |
| 2. | Assess the extent to which the most appropriate answer to the multiple choice question is “(e) all of the above”. |
| 3. | Discuss the extent to which the answer to the above multiple choice question may differ in a perfectly competitive and imperfect labour market. |