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Occupational discrimination and the gender wage gap
Preguntas del test (4)
1Suppose 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 nothing else changes)
- AThe relative wages of women will rise
- BThe relative wages of women will fall
- CThe relative wages of women will stay the same
- DThe relative wages of women will rise above that of men
2The index of occupational dissimilarity for women and men
- Awould be 100 if all occupations were completely segregated
- Bwould be 100 if men and women were randomly assigned to jobs
- Chas risen since 1970
- Dshows the percentage workers who face occupational discrimination
3The female- male wage ratio in the United States is generally __________ than in other industrialized countries, probably because _________
- Ahigher; in the US women's productive characteristics are closer to that of men
- Bhigher; American women face relatively less discrimination
- Clower; American women face relatively more discrimination
- Dlower; pay gaps between high- and low- paid workers are wider in the US
4Occupational discrimination
- Aoccurs when secretaries are paid less than truck drivers
- Bis when the distribution of jobs within one group is different from distribution of jobs within another group
- Cis keeping one group in a lower paying job although their potential productivity is equal to that of those who have access to higher paying jobs
- Dis the desire of those in one group to work in different jobs than those in another group
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- Annalise DiSipio
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- English
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