PRINCIPLES OF MICROECONOMICS (OER)
2nd Edition
ISBN: 9781947172340
Author: Timothy Taylor, Steven A. Greenlaw
Publisher: OpenStax
expand_more
expand_more
format_list_bulleted
Concept explainers
Textbook Question
Chapter 14, Problem 9SCQ
Explain i11each of the following situations how market forces might give a business an incentive to act in a less discriminatory fashion.
- A local flower delivery business run by a bigoted white owner notices that many of its local customers are black.
- An assembly line has traditionally only hired men, but it is having a hard time hiring sufficiently qualified workers.
- A biased owner of a firm that provides home health care services would like to pay lower wages to Hispanic workers than to other employees.
Expert Solution & Answer
Trending nowThis is a popular solution!
Students have asked these similar questions
An example of a policy that combats discrimination is:
Equal employment opportunity legislation
Affirmative action legislation
Equal pay legislation
Pay equity or equal value legislation
All of the above
Consider discrimination in employment. Suppose dark-haired employees don't like working with blonde employees. Could this discrimination explain lower wages for blond employees? If such a pay differential existed, what would an entrepreneur who wants to maximize profits do? If there were many entrepreneurs with the same strategy, what would happen over time?
Which of the following is an example of human capital discrimination?
OA University is found guilty of discriminating against minorities in their
admissions policy.
A federal agency is found guilty of granting contracts only to firms owned and
operated by white people.
Women are crowded into nursing and teaching.
Two employees, a man and a woman, have the same qualifications and
experience, but the man is paid a higher wage.
An employer refuses to hire minority people.
A supply-side policy to reduce illegal drug usage would include
A) Treatment programs for drug addiction.
B) Clean needle exchange programs.
O C Crop eradication..
O D) Education about the harm of illegal drugs.
Chapter 14 Solutions
PRINCIPLES OF MICROECONOMICS (OER)
Ch. 14 - Table 14.10 shows levels of employment (Labor),...Ch. 14 - Table 14.11 shows levels of employment (Labor),...Ch. 14 - Table 14.12 shows the quantity demanded and...Ch. 14 - Do unions typically oppose new technology out of a...Ch. 14 - Compared with the share of workers in most other...Ch. 14 - Are firms with a high percentage of union...Ch. 14 - D0 countries with a higher percentage of unionized...Ch. 14 - Table 14.13 shows information from the supply...Ch. 14 - Explain i11each of the following situations how...Ch. 14 - Does the earnings gap between the average wages of...
Ch. 14 - If immigration is reduced, what is the impact on...Ch. 14 - What determines the demand for labor for a firm...Ch. 14 - What determines the demand for labor for a firm...Ch. 14 - What is a perfectly competitive labor market?Ch. 14 - What is a labor union?Ch. 14 - Why do employers have a natural advantage in...Ch. 14 - What are some of the most important laws that...Ch. 14 - How does the presence of a labor union change...Ch. 14 - What is the long-term trend in American union...Ch. 14 - Would you expect the presence of labor unions to...Ch. 14 - What are the main causes for the recent [tends in...Ch. 14 - What is a monopsony?Ch. 14 - What is the marginal cost of labor?Ch. 14 - How does monopsony affect the equilibrium wage and...Ch. 14 - What is a bilateral monopoly?Ch. 14 - How does a bilateral monopoly affect the...Ch. 14 - Describe how the earnings gap between men and...Ch. 14 - Describe how the earnings gap between blacks and...Ch. 14 - Does a gap between the average earnings of men and...Ch. 14 - Will a free market tend to encourage or discourage...Ch. 14 - What policies, when used together with...Ch. 14 - Describe how affirmative action is applied in the...Ch. 14 - What factors can explain the relatively small...Ch. 14 - Have levels of immigration to the United States...Ch. 14 - How would you expect immigration by primarily...Ch. 14 - What is the marginal cost of labor for a firm that...Ch. 14 - Given the decline in union membership over the...Ch. 14 - Are unions and technological improvements...Ch. 14 - Will union membership continue to decline? Why or...Ch. 14 - If it is not profitable to discriminate, why does...Ch. 14 - If a company has discriminated against minorities...Ch. 14 - If the United States allows a greater quantity of...Ch. 14 - If all countries eliminated all barriers to...
Additional Business Textbook Solutions
Find more solutions based on key concepts
The meaning for float and its three components.
Gitman: Principl Manageri Finance_15 (15th Edition) (What's New in Finance)
(Record inventory transactions in the periodic system) Wexton Technologies began the year with inventory of 560...
Financial Accounting (12th Edition) (What's New in Accounting)
(Preferred stock valuation) What is the value of a preferred stock when the dividend rate is 16 percent on a $1...
Foundations Of Finance
Quick ratio and current ratio (Learning Objective 7) 1520 min. Consider the following data COMPANY A B C D Cash...
Financial Accounting, Student Value Edition (5th Edition)
The way to measure its net debt when calculating its unlevered cost of capital. Introduction: An interest tax s...
Corporate Finance (4th Edition) (Pearson Series in Finance) - Standalone book
Knowledge Booster
Learn more about
Need a deep-dive on the concept behind this application? Look no further. Learn more about this topic, economics and related others by exploring similar questions and additional content below.Similar questions
- "Discuss the Implications of Employer Discrimination for the Hiring Decisions of the Firm."arrow_forwardDiscuss economic and policy factors that explain why racial discrimination is more likely in law enforcement than in labor markets.arrow_forwardExplain the arguments against discrimination in your own words.arrow_forward
- Question 26 of 30 Consider the labor market for electricians. The demand curve is downward sloping and the supply curve is upward sloping. In this market, however, there is a strong labor union. Assume that the electrician's union is able to negotiate a new contract that substantially raises their member's wages. Select the correct statement. Fewer people want to work as electricians as the union increases wage. Firms hire the same number of electricians at both wages. The wage increase is unambiguously beneficial for all the electricians working before the wage increase. O A consequer of the union negotiating a higher wage is fewer jobs for electricians. 8:25 PM 46°F 12/15/2021 aarrow_forwardThe U.S. Bureau of the Census reported that, on average, white men earn $50, 945, whereas white women earn $31,008. Economic discrimination explains at least some of this wage gap, but economists think that there are other factors that also contibute to wage gaps. Which factor is not an explanation offered by economists for these types of wage gaps? Various groups in the population graduate from college at varying rates. Differences in earnings can be explained in part by differences in educational attainment. Men and women take different types of jobs. Men are more likely to prioritze jobs with higher wages, and women are more likely to prioritize jobs with other desirable characteristics. On average, men and women have different amounts of experience in their jobs. Ceteris paribus, men are less likely to temporarily leave the workforce and, therefore, have more experience than women. There are innate differences between men and women that make men more productive than women. Because…arrow_forwardWhich of the following statements is not correct? a) Competitive markets tend to limit the impact of discrimination on wages. b) Differences in earnings of whites and blacks or men and women provide clear evidence of discrimination. c) Some differences in earnings are attributable to discrimination based on race, sex, or other factors. d) Profit-maximizing behavior can reduce discriminatory wage differentials.arrow_forward
- In the case of Disney & McDonald’s Linked to $0.06/Hour Sweatshop in Vietnam. Do you think culture has an influence on how Vietnamese workers were abused as employees? Defend your answer.arrow_forwardQUESTION 5 Which of the following represents an example of racial labor-market discrimination? An employer is as likely to grant an interview to a person with a traditionally "masculine" name such as "Alex" as a person with a traditionally "feminine" name Oa "such as "Emily." Ob. An employer is more likely to grant an interview to a person graduating from Yale than from the local community college. An employer is more likely to grant an interview to a woman with a traditionally "white" name such as Emily than to a woman with a traditionally "black" name Oo. such as Lakisha. d. An employer is more likely to grant an interview to a person graduating from the local community college than from Yale.arrow_forwardAfter hiring the third emplyee, John was able to produce 110 units instead of 80 units without the third employee. The price of each unit is $10. What is the Marginal Revenue Product of the third employee. $800 $1100 $3000 $1900 Not Enough Informationarrow_forward
- Explain the discrimination coefficient.arrow_forwardWhy do economists say that discrimination is inerhently inefficent and therefore will not occur in general?arrow_forwardEconomic discrimination takes place when an employer pays workers the lowest wage possible. pays workers different wages on the basis of some arbitrary characteristics of workers that are irrelevant to the job performed. pays lower wages to workers who are not as productive as other workers. pays workers compensating wage differentials.arrow_forward
arrow_back_ios
SEE MORE QUESTIONS
arrow_forward_ios
Recommended textbooks for you
Economics (MindTap Course List)EconomicsISBN:9781337617383Author:Roger A. ArnoldPublisher:Cengage Learning
Microeconomics: Private and Public Choice (MindTa...EconomicsISBN:9781305506893Author:James D. Gwartney, Richard L. Stroup, Russell S. Sobel, David A. MacphersonPublisher:Cengage Learning
Economics (MindTap Course List)
Economics
ISBN:9781337617383
Author:Roger A. Arnold
Publisher:Cengage Learning
Microeconomics: Private and Public Choice (MindTa...
Economics
ISBN:9781305506893
Author:James D. Gwartney, Richard L. Stroup, Russell S. Sobel, David A. Macpherson
Publisher:Cengage Learning