There are one hundred jobs and one hundred workers in a competitive job market. All workers are equally productive. All employers dislike female workers but vary by the degree of their dislike. Job one's employer dislikes females by $1 a week, job two's employer by $2 a week, and so forth, such that job one hundred's employer dislikes females by $100 a week. Assume male workers are paid $500 a week. If there are 40 females and 60 males in the labor force, then which of the following is true in the short-run equilibrium? a. employer 40 will pay a wage of $440 and hire a female
b. employer 10 will pay a wage of $440 and hire a female
c. employers of males could increase their monetary profit by hiring females instead
d. All of the above are true

The monthly demand equation for an electric utility company is estimated to be p equals 60 minus left parenthesis 10 superscript negative 5 baseline right parenthesis x, where p is measured in dollars and x is measured in thousands of killowatt-hours. the utility has fixed costs of $3 comma 000 comma 000 per month and variable costs of $32 per 1000 kilowatt-hours of electricity generated, so the cost function is upper c left parenthesis x right parenthesis equals 3 times 10 superscript 6 baseline plus 32 x. (a) find the value of x and the corresponding price for 1000 kilowatt-hours that maximize the utility's profit. (b) suppose that the rising fuel costs increase the utility's variable costs from $32 to $38, so its new cost function is upper c 1 left parenthesis x right parenthesis equals 3 times 10 superscript 6 baseline plus 38 x. should the utility pass all this increase of $6 per thousand kilowatt-hours on to the consumers?