Category: Human Capital

A. employees
B. the population
C. the factors of production
D. the working population

A. Men have more human capital than women
B. Employers in competitive markets are bigots
C. Men have more job experience than women
D. None of the above

A. Attractive people tend to earn less because attractive people are viewed as shallow and more self-absorbed and therefore, as less productive
B. Attractive people tend to earn more because they may actually have a larger value of marginal product
C. Attractive people tend to earn more because attractive people usually have greater human capital
D. Attractive people tend to earn less because attractive people usually have less human capital

A. increase; increase
B. increase; reduce
C. reduce; reduce
D. reduce; increase

A. will not work at the offered wage
B. would work at the going wage but can’t find jobs
C. will not work because the hours are anti-social
D. Are not prepared to move house to get the job

A. can make any worker into a superstar
B. increases human capital and the wages of workers
C. only helps firms sort workers into high ability and low-ability workers
D. reduces the wage gap between high-skill and low-skill workers.

A. One employee is more attractive than another
B. One employee is more educated than another
C. All of these answers generated
D. One employee works harder than another
E. One employee is willing to work the nightshift while another is not.

A. women obtaining less human capital because they don’t plan to work continuously to the age of retirement
B. Women entering and leaving the labour force to care for children
C. customers preferring to deal with men
D. women preferring to work in pleasant clean safe work places
E. all of these answers

A. Working the night shift
B. working harder
C. more education
D. having a greater amount of natural ability
E. doing a job that is fun

A. All of these answers could be source of a persistent discriminatory wage differential
B. the customer
C. the government
D. the employer