Exam 10: Worker Mobility: Migration, Immigration, and Turnover

Suppose the United States erected a wall around its border that increase the cost of illegally immigrating to the United States from Mexico. The effect of the wall would likely be to

Most college professors have tenure, which makes it very hard to fire them. What is the effect of tenure on the academic job markets?

Allowing more immigration of unskilled workers will lower the real wages of skilled workers if

The human capital theory of migration compares the costs of a move to

Young workers are more likely to quit their jobs than older workers for all of the following reasons EXCEPT

An increase in the discount rate would make a worker

The overall wage ratio of newly arrived male immigrants to native-born men fell substantially from 1960 to 1980. This is probably because

Studies using local labor markets as units of observation estimate that the effects of immigration on native-born wages and employment are ________. This could be because

One model of moving assumes that a family will move when the present value of the wage gains summed over the two spouses exceeds the full cost of moving. Which of the following observations (if true) would give the most support to this model?

Which of the following would cause quit rates to decline?

When Jeremy looks at the monetary costs and benefits of moving, he found that he would be on net $50,000 better off by moving. He decides to stay where he is and not move. Which of the following could explain this behavior?

An economist assumes while educated persons have lower informational costs to moving, younger adults have lower psychic costs of moving. Which of the following observations (if true) would support this assumption?

The deportation of illegal aliens may create jobs on a one-to-one basis for native workers if

The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 was

One immigrant to country X increases his wage from $13,000 (in their home country) to $15,000. There are no costs to moving. A native worker was earning $15,000. However, the immigrant replaces him and the native instead lives and works at home, which he values at $15,000. Which of the following statements is true?

In an industry, a unit of output can be produced by 3 unskilled workers or by 1 skilled worker. From this information, skilled and unskilled workers are

City X has a large fraction of illegal immigrants; its native high school dropouts earn $17 an hour. City Y has a small fraction of illegal immigrants; its native high school dropouts earn $18 an hour. This suggests that illegal immigrants have a small effect on drop-out wages. Which of the following, if true and present, would suggest the true negative effect of illegal immigrants on dropout wages is much larger?

Quit rates rise as

Most immigrants' discounted lifetime earnings will be lower than those of comparable native workers. This shows

Which of the following would decrease the mobility of workers within a nation?