Question

Suppose a woman marries her butler. After they are married, her husband continues to wait on her as before, and she continues to support him as before (but as a husband rather than an employee). Consider how this marriage impacts how output in the economy is calculated.

Answer 1

The marriage would affect how the output in the economy is calculated by decreasing the labor strength of the economy as the butler is no longer a butler the husband of the woman who employed him.

Explanation:

• In the given case, the output of the economy is very less likely to get affected as the butler and the woman have chosen to continue working in the same way they did before they got married.
• The only difference that would be recorded would thus be in the labor strength of the economy which would be observed to have decreased.