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

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

There are one hundred jobs and one hundred workers in a competitive job market.All workers are equally productive.All employers dislike female workers but vary by the degree of their dislike.Job one's employer dislikes females by $1 a week,job two's employer by $2 a week,and so forth,such that job one hundred's employer dislikes females by $100 a week.Assume male workers are paid $500 a week.If there are 40 females and 60 males in the labor force,then which of the following is true in the short-run equilibrium?

Comparable worth

What does the employment-to-population ratio measure? What has happened to the employment-to-population ratio of African American males over time? Of white males over time?

Wage discrimination is