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What is essential when comparing New Jersey GDP with New York or Pennsylvania?

  • Ignoring revisions and sources
  • Comparing one state’s quarter with another’s full year
  • Mixing current dollars with chained dollars without explanation
  • Using consistent years and price measures
Correct answer(s):
  • Using consistent years and price measures

Why can earlier New Jersey GDP figures change in later publications?

  • GDP values are constitutionally fixed forever
  • Only the postal abbreviation changes
  • BEA revises estimates when new data or methods become available
  • Economic surveys are never updated
Correct answer(s):
  • BEA revises estimates when new data or methods become available

Why does a rise in current-dollar GDP not necessarily imply equally large real growth?

  • Output must double every year
  • Price increases can raise nominal values
  • Real GDP always equals nominal GDP
  • Nominal GDP excludes inflation by definition
Correct answer(s):
  • Price increases can raise nominal values

Which environmental issue can be overlooked by GDP alone?

  • Pollution and ecosystem costs of development
  • State government purchases
  • Annual manufacturing value added
  • Measured market services
Correct answer(s):
  • Pollution and ecosystem costs of development

What public-policy challenge accompanies heavily used New Jersey ports and roads?

  • Keeping infrastructure free from all wear forever
  • Removing all safety requirements
  • Eliminating public investment entirely
  • Balancing commerce with maintenance, congestion, and land use
Correct answer(s):
  • Balancing commerce with maintenance, congestion, and land use

How can universities help New Jersey’s advanced industries?

  • By eliminating the need for health workers
  • By preventing scientific collaboration
  • By producing research and skilled graduates
  • By replacing all manufacturers with libraries
Correct answer(s):
  • By producing research and skilled graduates

Why should economists use several indicators to assess New Jersey living standards?

  • All indicators always move identically
  • GDP, household income, employment, and housing costs show different things
  • Only total coastline length matters
  • GDP alone reveals every family’s savings
Correct answer(s):
  • GDP, household income, employment, and housing costs show different things

How is an industry’s share of New Jersey GDP calculated?

  • Its value added divided by state GDP for a comparable period
  • Its employee count divided by miles of coastline
  • Its profit divided by the number of counties
  • Its gross sales multiplied by population
Correct answer(s):
  • Its value added divided by state GDP for a comparable period

What does nonfarm payroll employment count?

  • Every person living in the state
  • Only unemployed residents
  • Jobs reported on nonfarm employers’ payrolls
  • Only unpaid family labor
Correct answer(s):
  • Jobs reported on nonfarm employers' payrolls

What is one economic benefit of dense regional markets and transport links?

  • Automatic elimination of every business cost
  • Guarantee of zero congestion
  • Easier matching of firms, workers, suppliers, and customers
  • Permanent price controls
Correct answer(s):
  • Easier matching of firms, workers, suppliers, and customers

How is the unemployment rate calculated?

  • All employed workers divided by state GDP
  • Unemployed labor-force participants divided by the civilian labor force
  • Unemployed people divided by all residents including children
  • Workers in manufacturing divided by total land
Correct answer(s):
  • Unemployed labor-force participants divided by the civilian labor force

What is a potential cost of intense development along New Jersey’s transport corridors?

  • No demand for infrastructure
  • Higher land costs and congestion
  • Elimination of all commute times
  • Unlimited free land
Correct answer(s):
  • Higher land costs and congestion

Why might a payroll jobs total differ from a resident employment count?

  • Employer and household surveys cover different populations and methods
  • One count measures river length
  • All datasets count exactly the same units
  • The totals must be identical
Correct answer(s):
  • Employer and household surveys cover different populations and methods

Why might shore hospitality hiring change strongly by season?

  • Tourism demand rises and falls over the year
  • All beaches are closed during summer
  • Tourism jobs depend only on GDP revisions
  • Every resort receives identical daily visitors year-round
Correct answer(s):
  • Tourism demand rises and falls over the year

Which activities form part of New Jersey’s life-sciences cluster?

  • Only agricultural irrigation
  • Only highway paving
  • Only coastal recreation
  • Pharmaceutical production, biotechnology, and related research
Correct answer(s):
  • Pharmaceutical production, biotechnology, and related research

Which factors determine the market value of a New Jersey crop harvest?

  • Only the number of school districts
  • Only the state’s population density
  • County names and election cycles
  • Quantity produced and selling prices
Correct answer(s):
  • Quantity produced and selling prices

About how many people worked in New Jersey’s life-sciences cluster in 2024 according to state labor research?

  • 850,000
  • 850
  • 85,000
  • 8.5 million
Correct answer(s):
  • 85,000

Why can New Jersey specialty-crop farms benefit from nearby northeastern cities?

  • All local roads are closed
  • All produce must cross the Pacific
  • Quick access to large markets for perishable produce
  • Metropolitan consumers cannot buy local crops
Correct answer(s):
  • Quick access to large markets for perishable produce

Approximately how many life-sciences establishments did that report identify for New Jersey in 2024?

  • 24
  • 2,400
  • 24,000
  • 240,000
Correct answer(s):
  • 2,400

What is economic diversification?

  • Making every employer produce the same product
  • Having several industries with different responses to shocks
  • Eliminating the service sector
  • Relying entirely on one seasonal business
Correct answer(s):
  • Having several industries with different responses to shocks