Beech corp., an accrual-basis, calendar-year s corporation, has been an s corporation since its inception. at the beginning of the current year, gold owned 50% of the 100 issued shares of beech stock, and had a $3,000 tax basis in the beech stock. during the current year, beech had $200,000 in net business income and $4,000 in oak county municipal bond interest income. beech made no distributions to its shareholders. what was gold’s tax basis in beech stock at year end?

Ajustification for job training programs is that they improve worker productivity. suppose that you are asked to evaluate whether more job training makes workers more productive. however, rather than having data on individual workers, you have access to data on manufacturing firms in ohio. in particu- lar, for each firm, you have information on hours of job training per worker (training) and number of nondefective items produced per worker hour (output). (i) carefully state the ceteris paribus thought experiment underlying this policy question. (ii) does it seem likely that a firm’s decision to train its workers will be independent of worker characteristics? what are some of those measurable and unmeasurable worker characteristics? (iii) name a factor other than worker characteristics that can affect worker productivity. (iv) if you find a positive correlation between output and training, would you have convincingly established that job training makes workers more productive? explain.

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