Refer to the information in Figure 16.5 below to answer the question(s) that follow.?Figure 16.5Figure 16.5 shows the marginal benefits of emitting pollution for the only two chemical companies in an industry, Alpha Chemicals and Beta Chemicals. Before any tax on pollution emissions is imposed, each company views pollution as being free.Refer to Figure 16.5. The government decides to impose a tax on pollution emissions to cut total emissions in this industry in half, and based on this decision it has set the tax at $100 per ton of emissions. Following the implementation of this tax, the total amount of tax revenue collected by the government from this

If many of the workers who become unemployed as a result of a recession are retail workers:

A. they will return to employment once the government announces its stimulus and consumer confidence returns. B. the retail sector is likely to remain permanently smaller. C. the government likely will be unable to target its stimulus spending for these workers. D. the government will have to rely on targeting "retail-ready" projects for stimulus spending.

Which of the following is true?

a. Employers who discriminate against women will have lower costs than rival firms that hire employees strictly on the basis of merit (productivity). b. If employers can hire equally productive female employees at a lower wage than males, the profit motive gives them a strong incentive to do so. c. The female/male earnings ratio is higher for persons who are married than for those who remain single. d. Both a and c are true.