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Labour, Poverty & Inequality Quiz

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Labour economics studies how workers and employers interact in markets - covering wages, employment, unemployment, working conditions, and the role of trade unions. Poverty and ine...

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The sociological and economic trend where highly educated, high-income individuals increasingly marry other highly educated, high-income individuals is called:
- A. Educational endogamy
- B. Assortative mating
- C. Class sorting
- D. The Gatsby effect
Which graphical representation shows the proportion of overall income or wealth assumed by the bottom x% of the people, used to illustrate economic inequality?
- A. Lorenz curve
- B. Kuznets curve
- C. Beveridge curve
- D. Phillips curve
What is unemployment?
- A. Low wage
- B. Inflation
- C. High tax
- D. No job
In labor economics, the lowest wage rate at which a worker would be willing to accept a particular type of job is known as their:
- A. Living wage
- B. Minimum wage
- C. Subsistence wage
- D. Reservation wage
According to neoclassical economics, a firm will continue hiring additional workers until the wage rate exactly equals what?
- A. The Marginal Cost of Production
- B. The Marginal Revenue Product of Labor
- C. The Average Variable Cost
- D. The Total Factor Productivity
According to dual labor market theory, jobs that are low-paying, offer poor working conditions, have high turnover rates, and provide little chance for advancement make up the:
- A. Primary labor market
- B. Secondary labor market
- C. Tertiary labor market
- D. Informal labor market
Economic activities that are not taxed, regulated, or monitored by the government-such as street vending or unregistered labor-make up what sector?
- A. The command economy
- B. The formal sector
- C. The informal economy
- D. The primary sector
In labor statistics, the acronym NEET stands for individuals who are "Not in Employment, Education, or..." what?
- A. Transition
- B. Technology
- C. Training
- D. Trade
What demographic term refers to individuals who spend at least 27 weeks a year in the labor force but still have incomes below the official poverty level?
- A. The working poor
- B. The precariat
- C. The structurally displaced
- D. The gig class
In United States labor law, the default doctrine that allows an employer to terminate an employee for any legal reason without warning or just cause is called:
- A. Right-to-work
- B. At-will employment
- C. Severance sovereignty
- D. Contractual autonomy
An age-population measurement comparing the number of people too young or too old to work against the number of productive, working-age people is called the:
- A. Dependency ratio
- B. Demographic dividend
- C. Labor replacement rate
- D. Senescent coefficient
Which labor market model, pioneered by Denmark, combines easy hiring and firing for employers with robust unemployment benefits and job training for workers?
- A. Flexicurity
- B. Ordoliberalism
- C. Corporatism
- D. Syndicalism
Which economic model, formulated by Gary Becker, argues that bigoted employers who refuse to hire a specific minority group will eventually be driven out of business by non-bigoted competitors?
- A. Statistical discrimination
- B. Taste-based discrimination
- C. The halo effect model
- D. Institutional prejudice theory
What is the 'Lorenz Curve' used for?
- A. Measuring demand
- B. Measuring inflation
- C. Measuring growth
- D. Measuring income inequality
The historic discriminatory practice where banks and insurance companies systematically denied mortgages or financial services to residents of specific, often minority-populated neighborhoods is called:
- A. Gentrification
- B. Blockbusting
- C. Redlining
- D. Steering
Which economic model explains that rural workers will migrate to urban areas-even if urban unemployment is high-because they base their decision on the 'expected' urban wage rather than the actual available jobs?
- A. Solow-Swan model
- B. Kuznets curve
- C. Harris-Todaro model
- D. Lewis turning point
The massive emigration of highly trained or intelligent people from a developing country to a more developed country is referred to as what?
- A. Demographic displacement
- B. Brain drain
- C. Intellectual attrition
- D. Skill depletion
A proposed economic policy where the government promises to provide a public sector job with a living wage to any citizen willing and able to work is called a:
- A. Universal basic income
- B. Job guarantee
- C. Civic conscription
- D. Workfare mandate
In labor economics, a market structure where there is only one buyer of labor (one employer) but many sellers of labor (workers) is called a:
- A. Monopoly
- B. Monopsony
- C. Oligopsony
- D. Perfect competition
Which economic framework, developed by Amartya Sen, argues that poverty should be measured by a person's lack of freedom to achieve basic functioning rather than just low income?
- A. The Capability Approach
- B. The Human Capital Model
- C. The Endogenous Growth Theory
- D. The Utilitarian Framework

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The sociological and economic trend where highly educated, high-income individuals increasingly marry other highly educated, high-income individuals is called:

Which graphical representation shows the proportion of overall income or wealth assumed by the bottom x% of the people, used to illustrate economic inequality?

What is unemployment?

In labor economics, the lowest wage rate at which a worker would be willing to accept a particular type of job is known as their:

According to neoclassical economics, a firm will continue hiring additional workers until the wage rate exactly equals what?

According to dual labor market theory, jobs that are low-paying, offer poor working conditions, have high turnover rates, and provide little chance for advancement make up the:

Economic activities that are not taxed, regulated, or monitored by the government-such as street vending or unregistered labor-make up what sector?

In labor statistics, the acronym NEET stands for individuals who are "Not in Employment, Education, or..." what?

What demographic term refers to individuals who spend at least 27 weeks a year in the labor force but still have incomes below the official poverty level?

In United States labor law, the default doctrine that allows an employer to terminate an employee for any legal reason without warning or just cause is called:

An age-population measurement comparing the number of people too young or too old to work against the number of productive, working-age people is called the:

Which labor market model, pioneered by Denmark, combines easy hiring and firing for employers with robust unemployment benefits and job training for workers?

Which economic model, formulated by Gary Becker, argues that bigoted employers who refuse to hire a specific minority group will eventually be driven out of business by non-bigoted competitors?

What is the 'Lorenz Curve' used for?

The historic discriminatory practice where banks and insurance companies systematically denied mortgages or financial services to residents of specific, often minority-populated neighborhoods is called:

Which economic model explains that rural workers will migrate to urban areas-even if urban unemployment is high-because they base their decision on the 'expected' urban wage rather than the actual available jobs?

The massive emigration of highly trained or intelligent people from a developing country to a more developed country is referred to as what?

A proposed economic policy where the government promises to provide a public sector job with a living wage to any citizen willing and able to work is called a:

In labor economics, a market structure where there is only one buyer of labor (one employer) but many sellers of labor (workers) is called a:

Which economic framework, developed by Amartya Sen, argues that poverty should be measured by a person's lack of freedom to achieve basic functioning rather than just low income?