Exam 23: Income Inequality, Poverty, and Discrimination

Refer to the diagrams, which show identical marginal utility from income curves for Singer and Catalano. If an initial distribution of $15,000 to Singer and $5,000 to Catalano is altered in favor of greater equality, it may be argued that

Assume that all workers are equally productive, but the wage rate for men is $25, compared to $23 for women. An employer who employs only male workers must have a discrimination coefficient of

Which of the following Gini ratios would indicate the least amount of income inequality?

An employer whose discrimination coefficient is $4 will

Which of the following helps finance the medical expenses of individuals receiving TANF or SSI?

Refer to the table. What percentage of households made $35,000 or more?

Poverty is a condition where a person or family does not have the means to

Which of the income distributions in the accompanying table is closest to describing the United States (as of 2017)?

After the implementation of TANF, the U.S. welfare rolls fell by roughly one-half between 1996 and 2007.

One cause of income inequality in the United States is

The primary purpose of Social Security is to

Which of the following is not a social insurance program?

Critics of Universal Basic Income (UBI)oppose it out of concern that it will

In a labor market generally biased against Hispanics, a reduction in the collective discrimination coefficients of employers will

In the taste-for-discrimination model, an increase in the prejudice of employers will decrease the demand for African-American workers, lower the African-American wage rate, and lower the ratio of African-American to white wages.

Refer to the figure, which shows four different Lorenz curves (I, II, III, and IV). The greatest increase in income inequality would occur with a shift in a Lorenz curve from

A Universal Basic Income program would guarantee that every household receives the same income.

The Gini ratio is calculated by dividing the area between the Lorenz curve and the diagonal by the

The former food-stamp program is now the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)and eligible households now receive

Suppose Gigantic Health Cooperative doesn't hire Mandy Morrison solely because she is a graduate of a particular foreign medical school, which is not known for the high quality of its graduates. Yet Mandy is actually more qualified than the average graduate of American medical schools. This is an example of