CRJ 306 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Shooting Of Oscar Grant, Rodney King, New Zealand National Football Team
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Question 1:
Economic discrimination puts the economy inside its production possibilities curve because discrimination:
| promotes present consumption rather than production of capital goods. |
| often causes inflation, which reduces the nation's real output. |
| redistributes income from low-paid to high-paid persons. |
| arbitrarily blocks women and certain minorities from higher-productivity, higher wage jobs and thus keeps the economy from producing its maximum output. |
Question 2:
Economic discrimination:
| affects the distribution of domestic output and income, but not its total size. |
| places the economy at some point inside of its production possibilities curve. |
| affects the total size of domestic output and income, but not its distribution. |
| is shown as some point outside of an economy's production possibilities curve. |
Question 3:
Labor market discrimination creates a:
| larger domestic output but no redistribution. |
| redistribution of a smaller domestic output. |
| redistribution of a larger domestic output. |
| smaller domestic output but no redistribution. |
Question 4:
An increase in the collective discrimination coefficients of employers will:
| reduce the African-American wage rate, increase African-American employment, and lower the actual African-American-white wage ratio. |
| reduce the African-American wage rate, decrease African-American employment, and lower the actual African-American-white wage ratio. |
| increase the African-American wage rate, reduce African-American employment, and increase the actual African-American-white wage ratio. |
| increase the African-American wage rate, increase African-American employment, and increase the actual African-American-white wage ratio. |
Question 5:
A reduction in the collective discrimination coefficients of employers will:
| reduce the African-American wage rate, increase African-American employment, and lower the actual African-American-white wage ratio. |
| reduce the African-American wage rate, decrease African-American employment, and lower the actual African-American-white wage ratio. |
| increase the African-American wage rate, reduce African-American employment, and increase the actual African-American-white wage ratio. |
| increase the African-American wage rate, increase African-American employment, and increase the actual African-American-white wage ratio. |
Question 6:
In the taste-for-discrimination model:
| women and minorities are confined to a limited number of occupations. |
| white employers behave as if employing African-American workers adds to costs. |
| individual workers are judged by the characteristics of the groups to which they belong. |
| prejudiced white employers will never hire African-American workers. |
Question 7:
Which of the following employers is the most prejudiced? Employer:
| C whose d is $4. |
| A whose d is $0. |
| D whose d is $6. |
| B whose d is $2. |
Question 8:
An implication of the taste-for-discrimination model is that:
| other things equal, nondiscriminating firms will have lower production costs than discriminating firms. |
| discrimination will move a firm along its declining average total cost curve. |
| discrimination can lower a firm's production costs. |
| other things equal, discriminating firms will have lower production costs than nondiscriminating firms. |
Question 9:
An employer is prejudiced, prefers to hire white rather than African-American workers, and is willing to pay higher wages to obtain white workers. This illustrates:
| the crowding model. |
| statistical discrimination. |
| the taste-for-discrimination model. |
| reverse discrimination. |
Question 10:
Empirical studies generally find that the estimated discrimination coefficient is larger in southern versus northern states. True or False: presuming that the wage differential is due to employer discrimination, this necessarily implies that there are more discriminating employers in the South than there are in the North.
