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JNU SIS 2021 Question 77: Factor markets and income distribution

Read the problem below A family owns a plot of land and two people are needed to work on each acre of land. Each acre produces an output of Rs.6000 and each member of the family can choose to either work on the land or work elsewhere for an annual wage rate of Rs.1500. If land is leased out then labour working on it must be paid Rs.2000.

Read the problem below A family owns a plot of land and two people are needed to work on each acre of land. Each acre produces an output of Rs.6000 and each member of the family can choose to either work on the land or work elsewhere for an annual wage rate of Rs.1500. If land is leased out then labour working on it must be paid Rs.2000.

If the family has eight people then what is the minimum number of acres of land needed for it to be optimal to lease out ?

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This question is on Distribution theory: factor shares, Euler's theorem and rent, part of Factor markets and income distribution in Microeconomics.

How output is divided among factors, and when payments to factors exactly exhaust output.

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