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MARGINALLY-ATTACHED WORKERS: People who are willing and able to work, who have either held a job or searched for employment within the last year, but are not actively seeking employment. Discouraged workers, people who are willing and able to engage in productive activities, but due to their overwhelming lack of success believe that any effort to find a job will be fruitless so they have stopped seeking employment, fall within this broader category of marginally-attached workers. People can be marginally attached to the labor force for a variety of reasons, discouraged workers, in contrast, achieve their designation specifically because they believe search efforts would not be worthwhile.

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Lesson 11: Elasticity Basics | Unit 5: Market Elasticity Page: 24 of 25

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  • Elasticity determinants affect the coefficient of elasticity.

  • Availability of Substitutes:
    • The elasticities of demand and supply are relatively greater for goods that have a large number of relatively close substitutes-in-consumption or substitutes-in-production.

  • Time Period:
    • The elasticities of demand and supply are relatively greater for goods over a longer period than a shorter period.

  • Proportion of Budget:
    • The elasticity of demand is greater for goods that take up a smaller proportion of a buyer's budget.

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DEADWEIGHT LOSS

The decrease in the sum of consumer surplus and producer surplus that results from the imposition of a tax. When a tax drives a wedge between demand price and supply price it disrupts what otherwise would be an efficient market equilibrium. Inefficiency arises because while a portion of the sum of consumer and producer surplus is merely transferred to government, a portion of this sum also disappears. The part that disappears is the deadweight loss and is an indicator of the inefficiency of the tax.

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