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Midterm exam

Exam handout (the focus of exam):

1/ Life satisfaction: well-being measures and determinants, job-satisfaction determinants, Easterlin Paradox.

2/ Migration: migration decisions, drivers of international migration, policies that attract migrants, policies to integrate migrants (citizenship, language), remittances, policies that motivate return migration to sending countries, 

3/ Labour market discrimination: social identity theory, hiring discrimination, correspondence study, anonymous job applications, statistical vs taste discrimination. Think how we can reduce statistical discrimination in the CV by including the signal of applicant's ability (e.g., language signal). This strategy is used in this paper (also covered in the class).

2019_Article_LanguageSkillsAndHomophilousHi.pdf

4/ Labour market imperfections: sources of imperfections, impact on unemployment, types of unemployment, discrimination (gender, race, age), mobility barriers and labour reallocation/misallocation, policies that address the imperfections and their impact on aggregate outcomes (productivity). 


November 4: Midterm exam online - ROPOT test) 

Instructions: The exam consists of multiple-choice questions (each worth half a point) and four open questions. You can earn 15 points + 2 bonus points in total. You have a maximum of 70 minutes to complete the exam. Every multiple-choice question has only one correct answer. Open questions have a maximum word limit that you must not exceed. Make sure to answer all questions, every point is valuable.

In case you are not able to attend the midterm or final exam, inform the lecturer by email at least 48 hours in advance.

Midterm exam will be accessible in ROPOT from 8:00 to 14:00 on Monday November 4 under this link:

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Midterm exam - open question
This question will appear in the exam and you can work on this question in advance. 

The ministry in your country is concerned about the discriminatory practices of manufacturing companies against people from minority group called Siths. You are hired to lead the experimental investigation of the prejudices of employers. You know that Siths have very common surnames and they can be identified by their last names.

a) Briefly explain how to design an experiment to test for the existence of discrimination against Siths in the hiring process by companies in the manufacturing sector.

b) Some believe that Siths are weak in mathematics that is demanded in the manufacturing jobs. Describe how can you adjust the experiment in (a) to identify statistical discrimination due to the math ability.

c) Your experiments confirmed the stereotype believe of Siths’ inferior math skills. What is your proposal to the ministry to reduce the prejudices?

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