Employment Trends and Issues

Multiple Choice

Which of the following was a response to the growing strength of unions?

• the Wagner Act

• the closed shop

• right-to-work laws

• the modified union shop

Multiple Choice

The income earned by females has only been a fraction of that earned by males partially because of

• the uneven distribution of men and women among various occupations.

• differences in human capital.

• discrimination.

• all of these.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is most responsible for increases in the federal minimum wage?

• supply of labor

• demand for labor

• two-tiered wage system

• inflation