The following information is available for the first month of operations for Brandt Inc.: Sales $570,000 Gross profit 210,000 Indirect labor 20,000 Indirect materials 5,000 Other factory overhead 37,000 Direct materials cost 390,000 Total manufacturing costs 658,000 Calculate direct labor cost for Brandt Inc.

Label each of the following statements true, false, or uncertain. explain your choice carefully. a. workers benefit equally from the process of creative destruction. b. in the past two decades, the real wages of low-skill u.s. workers have declined relative to the real wages of high-skill workers. c. technological progress leads to a decrease in employment if, and only if, the increase in output is smaller than the increase in productivity. d. the apparent decrease in the natural rate of unemployment in the united states in the second-half of the 1990s can be explained by the fact that productivity growth was unexpectedly high during that period.