Chapter 3 Practice Quiz

The Social and Economic Setting
. Low-income rates among working age main income recipients are highest for ________.

. The income of children in ________ is most highly correlated with the income of their parents.

. ________ explain(s) the underemployment and underutilization of highly skilled and highly educated immigrants.

. What does Spence argue has caused a 'dearth of jobs' in Western countries?

. Deliberate discrimination is ________.

. The belief that child-rearing is primary a female function is an example of ________.

. Systemic discrimination is ________.

. ________ is an example of a choice that can contribute to inequality.

. The welfare gap is highest in ________.

. Compared to other groups, Indigenous peoples in Canada tend to experience ________.

. The 'happiest country in the world' almost every year on the Eurobarometer and World Happiness Report is __________.

. Which of the following statements are correct?

. How many Canadians live below the poverty line?

. Which of the following statements are true?

. What does Brooks says are the top two socio-economic issues typically identified by Canadians?

. What was the average Canadian unemployment rate between 1983 and 2018?

. Which of the following is not an example of the service sector?

. What does Léo Charbonneau say is the changing nature of the job market for new university graduates?

. When did the era of industrialization and greater influence, when Canadians began to think of themselves as predominantly middle class, begin in Canada?

. Whose definition is typically used when measuring poverty in Canada?

. In which of the following countries do the children of immigrants lag behind the native-born in terms of both education and income?

. What is the average life expectancy in Canada?

. Brooks notes that Canada's purchasing power parity (PPP) has slipped over the last few decades, with 13 industrialized democracies ranked ahead of Canada. What does this mean?

. Economists agree that a shrinking manufacturing sector and greater reliance on service-sector employment is a bad thing.

. Canada's job creation rate has been one of the best in the developed world for over a decade and virtually all labour economists project that as the country's population continues to age, the supply of workers, including those needed to fill highly skilled and well-paying jobs, will not meet the projected demand.

. The number of manufacturing jobs in Canada has grown in recent years, and this has caused great concern.

. There was a spike in American inquiries about moving to Canada following both the election of Donald Trump and the re-election of George W. Bush.

. Australia has the highest rate of job growth in the G7.

. Canadians are not used to thinking of themselves and their society in terms of class.

. Canada is fairly typical compared to the distribution of income in other advanced capitalist societies.

. Inequality has a regional component in Canada.

. The number of Canadians who identify as 'middle class' has risen over the last 15 years.

. Socio-economic mobility is the ability of individuals, families, and groups to move from one social or economic position to another.

. Canada lags behind most other societies in terms of how quickly immigrants and their children are able to climb the socio-economic ladder.

. There are no provinces where levels of social assistance reach the poverty line.

. The corporate elite operate as a social network that reproduces itself largely through self-recruitment.

. Politics plays an important role in determining the inequalities that are addressed and dealt with in the public agenda.

. Asking people how happy or satisfied they are is not a way of measuring the quality of life.

. Indigenous peoples in Canada and single-parent families are disproportionately represented among food bank users.

. Canada's social pathologies are fairly typical of those experienced by other advanced industrial societies.

. Many argue that the real limitations on Canadian independence are a result of Canada's economic dependence on Great Britain and the United States.

. All countries are subject to external influences that limit the independence of their elected governments.

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