Exam 19: Earnings and Discrimination

When employers sort employment applications into high-ability and low-ability people based on the attainment of a college degree (irrespective of major),they are providing evidence in support of the

According to proponents of the signaling theory of education,

A signaling theory of education suggests that

As a result of an increase in the earnings gap between skilled and unskilled jobs,the incentive to get a college education has been declining.

Which of the following is not an explanation for why better educated workers earn more,on average,than less educated workers in the United States?

Workers with more human capital on average earn substantially higher pay than workers with less human capital in

Discrimination by a manager in the hiring process

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

A "technology" hypothesis has been advanced as an explanation for the widening earnings gap between skilled and unskilled workers in the United States.This hypothesis emphasizes the likelihood that technological advances have

When computers are used to replace workers on a factory production line,the wage gap between skilled and unskilled workers

Experimental evidence indicates women choose less competitive environments than men.

If firms are competitive,then labor-market discrimination

The idea of paying workers an efficiency wage is that

In the country of Freedonia,men and women have the same level of education and choose different forms of work in the same proportions.The only real difference is that men typically stay home to raise young children,returning to the work force after their children enter elementary school.If no discrimination exists,then we would expect that,on average,

Explain the role of job experience in explaining the differences between the average wages of men and women.

The market wage could be higher than the equilibrium wage if a worker

Which of the following statements is not correct?

Economists found evidence of discrimination in each of the following markets except

Which of the following theories explains why increased education translates into higher wages?

According to proponents of the signaling theory of education,an increase in the education levels of all workers would