Exam 12: Gender, Race, and Ethnicity in the Labor Market

Suppose that tall employees dislike working with short employees. Assume also that short and tall employees are perfect substitutes for one another in producing goods. What is the likely outcome?

Percentage goals in minority employment

The index of occupational dissimilarity for women and men

Customer discrimination will cause

Suppose that females and males are equally productive and that some employers discriminate against females. If some employers begin discriminating against males, which of these CANNOT happen (assuming that nothing else changes).

All of the following statements about the effectiveness of federal antidiscrimination programs are true EXCEPT (select the statement that is not true)

Occupational discrimination

Employer discrimination implies that

In the mid-1990s the labor force participation rate of black women was ________ the rate of white women, while the rate for black men was ________ the rate of white men.

The female-male wage ratio in the United States is generally ________ than in other industrialized countries, probably because ________

Comparable worth analysis in Minnesota found that

There are one hundred supervising jobs and one hundred male supervisors in a competitive job market. In addition, each supervisor supervises one line worker. There are one hundred line jobs and one hundred line workers. The supervisor of job one dislikes supervising female line workers by $1 a week. The supervisor of job two dislikes female line workers by $2 a week, and so forth, such that the supervisor of job hundred dislikes supervising female line workers by $100 a week. There are 60 female and 40 male line workers. Supervisors of male line workers are paid $400 a week and male line workers are paid $200 a week. Which of the following is NOT true in the short-run equilibrium?

Between 1988 and 2008, which group did NOT experience growth in their share of the civilian labor force?

Empirical studies of wage differentials between young black males and young white males estimate that

In general, women in low-paying jobs tend to earn ________ of male earnings (for those males in low-paying jobs) than women in high-paying jobs.

The Equal Pay Act of 1963

Actual efforts to identify wage discrimination in the labor market

Female earnings as a fraction of male earnings tend to ________ as age increases and tend to ________ as education increases.

Studies including cognitive achievement among the measures of productive have generally found

Employee-based discrimination along racial lines implies all of the following EXCEPT