WGST 2P86 Lecture : WISE 2P86 2011 Spring Chapter 10

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11 Feb 2012

School

Brock University

Department

Women's and Gender Studies

Course

WGST 2P86

Professor

Indra Hardeen

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Chapter 10 changing work roles and the family. The determining factor in decisions concerning family issues such as marriage, divorce and fertility is whether the benefits exceed the costs. Marriage is encouraged by a number of factors; it makes possible the specialization and exchange that potentially increase the couple"s productivity and economic well-being. As women have been acquiring more job-oriented education and training, their market productivity has increased relative to their home productivity. From this perspective, rising female labour force participation is expected to result in lower marriage rates. This is, women are no longer pressured to choose between employment on the one hand and marriage on the other. Working in the same direction, some sociologists argue that some men may prefer women who can make a larger contribution to family income. Another factor receiving quite a bit of attention as possibly affecting trends in marriage rates is the role of income support available outside of marriage, such as welfare.

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1. Because many men traditionally have not produced a lot of household commodities

a.	they are more likely to reduce hours of work after a decrease in their wage rate

b. their income effect is likely to be smaller than that of women

c. they can more easily substitute leisure for household production

d.	they are less likely to reduce hours of work after a decrease in their wage rate

2. One of the main changes in the typical family in the United States over the past 30-40 years has been

a. non-marital births have decreased appreciably

b. marriage has declined while cohabitation has risen

c. single-parent families have fallen considerably

d. median age at first marriage has decreased

3. A single mother is currently paying childcare cost of $10 an hour and she works 8 hours a day. The government then decides to provides child care at a constant $80 a day. The effect of this event will be to:

a. cause the mother to work more hours

b. cause the mother to work less hours

c. cannot tell without knowing which effect dominates: the income or substitution effect

d. cause the mother to work the same hours

4. Which statement correctly describes the relationship between Marriage and Poverty?

a. poverty as a whole can be solved by people just having children

b. Children who grow up in a dual parent household are significantly more likely to experience poverty

c. Children who grow up in a dual parent household are significantly less likely to experience poverty

d. poverty as a whole can be solved by people just staying married

5. The real determining "discriminatory" factor in higher education today is

a.	"out of state" status

1. For each group identified in bold type below, use the labor-leisure choice model to explain the change in the quantity of leisure desired. Be sure to explain how the group's labor force participation rate is affected.

a) The earnings of married men have decreased, thereby reducing the non-wage incomes of married women.

b) Real wage rates for women have increased. Further, the substitution effect for women is stronger than the income effect.

c) Real wage rates for men have increased. Further, the substitution effect for men is dominated by the income effect.

d) Married women exhibit a stronger preference for market work over other non-market uses of time.

e) Social Security has increased benefits and widened coverage for older citizens.

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36) If a nation wants to increase the productivity of its labour force, the best way to do so would be: a) b) increase the number of places at post-secondary educational institutions invest in projects that reduce unemployment spend more on job training and job-related technology reduce taxes

WGST 2P86 Lecture : WISE 2P86 2011 Spring Chapter 10

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