The midterm exam is scheduled for Tuesday, March 28. It will be available in the ROPOT (IS) from 10:00 to 12:00, and it is important that you start working on it before 10:40. You will have a total of 70 minutes to complete the exam. The test will consist of approximately 10 multiple-choice questions, each worth 0.5 points with no negative points. Please note that only one answer will be correct in the multiple-choice question. Test will include four open-ended questions. You can earn up to 15 points in total. You are permitted to use lecture materials, but collaboration between students during the test is not allowed.

I will send you the link to the exam by email on Tuesday. If any questions arise during the exam, please post them to Teams.

Midterm handout: 

Make sure you understand the following terms and you can explain them: unemployment, employment, unemployment rate, part-time work, employment rate over the lifetime, gender pay gap, gender employment gap, Mathilda effect, sticky floor, glass ceiling, statistical discrimination, gender stereotypes, explained and unexplained part of wage gap,  gender-neutral occupation, correspondence study, the price of motherhood, backlash in the gender context, McWage Index, minimum wage vs collectively agreed wages, reservation wage, job vacancy, Mincer equation and interpretation of coefficients, unobserved factors influencing the wage, differences in social norms across countries, missing women. 

Topics that may appear in the questions: The purpose and motivation to work; Demographic development and its impact on the labour market; Czech labour market characteristics (gender gaps, part-time contract, unemployment rate);  gender differences in education and field of study; consequences of high gender pay gap (poverty trap for women); occupation and industry sorting and its relevance for gender wage gap; Job search behaviour and its relevance for gender wage gap; gender stereotypes and its relevance for gender wage gap; Policy suggestions to improve gender equality; Earnings advantages from education; Why starting your career during a strong economy is better? (see reading material); how do we measure women's status and compare between countries?; Son preference and its impact on the prospects of women in the society; Why higher price of tea contributed to more women born in China over the years?