Chapter 9: Wage Determination and Superstar Salaries

Human capital

Human capital

________ is the skills and knowledge workers acquire through education, experience, and training that makes them more productive in the workforce.

production function

A(n) ________ shows the amount of output that can be produced with different amounts of inputs.

Profit=

Total Revenue - Total Cost

Law of diminishing marginal product

is holding other inputs constant as additional units of an input are added to a production process, at some point increases in total production occur at a decreasing rate.

Human capital

is the skills and knowledge workers acquire through education, experience, and training that makes them more productive in the workforce.

The value of the marginal product of labour

the increase in total revenue earned when the firm hires an additional worker.