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OCCUPATIONAL MOBILITY: The mobility, or movement, of factors of production from one type of productive activity to another type of productive activity. In particular, occupational mobility is the ease with which resources can change occupations. For example, a worker leaves a job as an accountant to takes a job as a computer programmer. Some factors are highly mobile and thus can easily moved jobs. Other factors are highly immobile and not easily able to switch production activities.
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Lesson 22: Factor Supply | Unit 3: Factor Supply
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- A set of useful concepts in the analysis of factor markets:
- Total factor cost is the opportunity cost incurred when using a given factor of production to produce a good or service.
- Total factor cost is used as the starting point for calculating the other two related measures:
- Average factor cost is the total factor cost per unit of factor input, found by dividing total factor cost by the quantity of factor input.
- The third factor cost concept is marginal factor cost.
- Marginal factor cost is the change in total factor cost resulting from a change in the quantity of factor input, found by dividing the change in total factor cost by the change in quantity of factor input.
- Marginal factor cost indicates how a firm's total factor cost is affected by hiring one more or one fewer factor.
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LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION RATE The proportion of the total noninstitutionalized civilian population 16 years of age and over that is in the civilian labor force. The labor force participation rate is essentially the ratio of the civilian labor force to the total noninstitutionalized civilian population 16 years of age and over. The data used to estimated the labor force participation rate is obtained along with other labor force data from the monthly Current Population Survey conducted by the Bureau of the Census for the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Labor force participation rates are also commonly calculated using data derived from the Census of the Population.
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VIR
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