1. Professor Gordon Hanson has a favorable view of illegal immigration because
Select one:
a. illegal immigration responds to the forces of the free market.
b. legal immigration is determined by a bureaucratic process which does not necessarily respond quickly to market forces.
c. spouses and children of skilled legal immigrants (who come with them) may not have marketable skills - so the case for legal immigration is weakened.
d. all of the above.
2. Gordon Hanson calculates gain/loss due to Mexican migration to the United States. He shows that because of Mexican migration to the United States:
Select one:
a. Original American workers lose 65% of US GDP.
b. Original American workers lose 1% of US GDP.
c. World income goes up by about 1.2% of US GDP.
d. Mexican wages fall by 0.03% of US GDP.
3. The Bracero Program refers to a temporary work visa program which is no longer in place. Under the program a large number of mostly Mexican farm workers could come and work in the Unirted States.
Select one:
True
False
4. This question may require some research. The US-Mexico Bracero Program was eventually opposed by:
Select one:
a. President Ronald Reagan.
b. Governor Rick Perry of Texas.
c. Cesar Chavez.
d. US Employers.
5. Which of the following is likely to contradict Samuel Huntington's idea that Mexican migrants to the US may not have an "Americano dream?"
Select one:
a. Mexican-American consumption pattern is not too different from the consumption pattern of rest of America.
b. Mexican immigrants who come from Mexican villages take longer to assimilate, but the educated Mexican immigrants assimilate readily.
c. Latinos are quite adept at climbing out of poverty. Sixty-eight percent of those who have been in this country 30 years, own their own homes.
d. A large number of Mexican-Americans join the US Army.
e. All of the above.
6. Which of the following would be called "Distributive Coalition" that prevents free entry and thereby creates deadweight losses?
Select one:
a. Racism
b. Casteism
c. Religious Fundamentalism
d. All of the above.
7. Which of the following events created a large number of refugees to the United States?
Select one:
a. The North Korean Famine of 1996
b. The Irish Potato Famine 1845-1850
c. The Chinese Famine 1958-1962
d. The Sudan Famine 1998
8. Approximately how many people in the world die every hour from hunger, malnutrition and starvation?
Select one:
a. 36
b. 3600
c. 3.6
d. 1000
9. According to Michael Clemens, World GDP would increase by 50% or more if inter-country immigration restrictions were removed.
Select one:
True
False
10. What is the current status of Senate Bill S. 744 (113th US Congress of 2013 - 2014) also known as Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act?
Select one:
a. It failed in the US Senate
b. It failed in the US House of Representatives.
c. Although the S 744 passed in 2013, it has not yet been introduced in the House of Representatives.
d. The bill was passed by the US Congress, but President Obama vetoed it.
11. In a country called George-David (named after George Borjas and David Card), the labor demand curve is given by: W = K – 4L
where W is the wage rate, K is a variable determined by capital stock in the country, and L is the labor force in the country.
K is created by capitalists and capitalists always convert 10 percent of their income to add to the stock of K (assume there is no depreciation).
Example: In this period if K is 60 and in this period, capitalists’ income is 100, in the next period, the value of K will be (old K + 10% of capitalists’ income in this period) = (60 + 0.10*100) = 70.
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Suppose in period 1. K = 50 and the labor supply is 10. What is the capitalists' income in period 1?
Select one:
a. 200
b. 100
c. 300
d. None of the above.
12. Refer to the question above, What are capitalists' incomes in the next three periods? (Period 2, Period 3 and Period 4) in this country if labor supply remains the same at 10?
Select one:
a. 200, 210, 220
b. 200, 200, 200
c. 100, 200, 300
d. None of the above.
13. Refer to the question above. Show how the wages change in the next three periods (Period 2, Period 3 and Period 4) in this country if labor supply remains the same at 10.
Select one:
a. 10, 10, 10
b. 10, 20, 30
c. 30, 50, 70
14. Refer to the question above. What are the incomes of the capitalists’ in the next three periods (Period 2, Period 3 and Period 4) in this country if an immigration takes place and labor supply becomes 11 beginning Period 2?
Select one:
a. 200, 240, 280
b. 242, 242, 242
c. 202, 234, 256
d. None of the above.
15. Refer to the question above. What are the wage rates in Period 2, Period 3 and Period 4 in this country if an immigration takes place and labor supply becomes 11 beginning Period 2?
Select one:
a. 10, 10, 10
b. 10, 15, 20
c. 20, 23, 27
d. 25, 28, 31
e. None of the above.
