Exam 19: Earnings and Discrimination

Experimental evidence indicates women choose less competitive environments than men.

Studies of discrimination in baseball suggest that black players

Which of the following does not affect the wages a worker earns?

Coal mining is a dangerous and dirty job. Suppose someone developed new machinery that made coal mining safer and cleaner; at the same time, suppose it made coal miners more productive. We would expect that the wages of coal miners would

Some economists hypothesize that international trade has altered the relative demand for skilled and unskilled labor, changing the gap in earnings between these two groups. Which of the following statements best describes this hypothesis?

Men and women tend to choose different types of occupations, and so

A 1990 study of the market for collectable baseball cards suggested

Differences in human capital among workers can often be attributed to social or political processes rather than economic processes.

Evaluate the following statement: "The gender pay gap provides evidence of widespread, severe, ongoing discrimination by employers and fellow workers."

How does the theory of efficiency wages explain above-equilibrium wages?

People who grew up in the western part of Aquilonia have an accent distinct from people who grew up in the eastern part of the country. People from the west also receive lower wages than people from the east. From this information alone, we can conclude that it is possible that

It is increasingly clear that technological change is the only explanation for an expanding wage gap between high-skill and low-skill workers.

A study by labor economists Hamermesh and Biddle found that

Which of the following comparisons best illustrates a compensating differential?

Labor-market discrimination based solely on age is illegal in the United States.

Which term do economists use to refer to a difference in wages that arises from nonmonetary characteristics of different jobs?

A manager of a small firm who believes in the signaling theory of education would encourage her employees to obtain additional education to raise their on-the-job productivity.

Table 19-2 Source: US Census Bureau and Mankiw's calculations -Refer to Table 19-2. In 2011, on average how much more income would a man with a college degree earn than a man with a high school degree?

Other things equal, one would predict that market wages would be relatively high when

Which of the following sets of circumstances is likely to provide the best evidence in support of the theory of efficiency wages?