Firms are not allowed to ask certain questions during job interviews, including marital status or how many children you have. Why is this the case?
A) People with children are more productive, thus it is unfair if the firm knows this information.
B) Firms might use the answers to these questions as a means of statistical discrimination.
C) People with children are less productive, thus the firm has no right to this information.
D) Such questions violate the privacy clause of the U.S. Constitution.
B
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The short-run Phillips curve is the relation between inflation and unemployment that holds for a given natural rate of unemployment and a
A) given rate of inflation. B) given expected rate of inflation. C) given level of unemployment. D) given expected level of unemployment.
In the Keynesian cross diagram, an increase in investment spending because companies become more optimistic about investment profitability causes the aggregate demand function to shift up, the equilibrium level of aggregate output to ________, and
the IS curve to shift to the ________, everything else held constant. A) rise; left B) rise; right C) fall; left D) fall; right
In Figure 3-4 above, the shift from Ap0 to Ap1 could have been caused by a rise in net exports of
A) 180. B) 750. C) 120. D) 300.
Suppose hamburger is an inferior good, but not a Giffen good, for Bob. If the price of hamburgers increases,
A) the income effect is greater than the substitution effect. B) the income effect is smaller than the substitution effect. C) consumption of hamburger will increase. D) We are unable to judge the change of hamburger consumption.