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employment migration and urbanization MCQs

Practise focused employment migration and urbanization questions with marked answers for exam preparation and subject revision.

employment migration and urbanization Mcqs
1. Which of the following is not TRUE about rural urban migration ?
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A. The urban share of total LDC population grew from 27 percent in 1975 and 35 percent in 1992 to 40 percent in 2003

B. Migration to the cities is a larger contributor than natural population growth to urban labor growth is sub Saharan Africa

C. In Latin America natural population increase is the major source of urban growth

D. From 1975 to 2000 the number of cities in LDC with populations over 1 million increased from 20 to 50

2. Entrepreneurship is the ?
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A. residual of a production function

B. technique to manage raw materials efficiently

C. blueprint on how to manage the labor force

D. resource coordinating other productive resources
3. During the Great Depression workers in DCs who took inferior jobs as a result of being laid off were known as ?
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A. voluntarily unemployed

B. seasonally unemployed

C. cyclical unemployed

D. disguised unemployed
4. Policies to reduce factor price distortion include?
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A. #NAME?

B. Encouraging small-scale industry

C. Setting market-clearing exchange rates

D. Decreasing subsidies to capital investors

5. The unemployment rate is the ?
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A. unemployed divided by employed

B. total employment divided by population

C. employed plus unemployed divided by labor force

D. labor force divided by population

6. Which of the following is not capita good ?
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A. inventories

B. consumers goods

C. buildings

D. plant and equipment

7. A production function ?
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A. depicts the relationship between input and output

B. shows the dependency output of the working population

C. is a function of natural resources in a country

D. states the relationship between products and income distribution

8. According to Harris and Todaro, creating urban jobs by expanding industrial output ?
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A. induces government to increase minimum wages

B. is insufficient for solving the urban unemployment problem

C. will generate more government revenue through urban wages

D. will generate capital-intensive technologies
9. The invisibly underemployed ?
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A. result from an inadequate use of workers capacities

B. are workers who are compelled to work short hours

C. are part-time workers who voluntarily work short hours

D. None of the above is correct

10. The theoretical basis for zero marginal productivity of labor was the concept of ?
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A. marginal rate of substitution

B. labor force literacy

C. substitution of leisure and work among labor

D. limited technical sustainability of factors
11. The simplest explanation based on Lewiss model for rural-urban migration is ?
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A. a higher expected income in urban areas

B. better infrastructure in urban areas

C. the availability of labor-intensive jobs in urban areas

D. That people migrate when urban wages exceed rural wages

12. In a production function Y = F(L, K,N,E,T) Y is ?
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A. national product

B. capital

C. natural resources

D. prevailing technology

13. The openly unemployed in LDCs are usually from all of the following except ?
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A. from the poorest 1/5 of the population

B. persons 15 to 24 years old

C. the educated

D. residents of urban areas

14. Labor skills are a major component of ?
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A. morbidity

B. mortality

C. fertility

D. population quality
15. Based on Nafziger and Auvinens study high unemployment rates ?
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A. represent a vast underutilization of human resources

B. are associated with middle age rural uneducated males

C. #NAME?

D. are potential source of social unrest and political discontent

16. Which of the following is not TRUE about unemployed in LDCs ?
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A. Unemployment in rural areas is twice that of urban areas

B. World-wide there are fewer unemployed females than males, but the rate is higher for women

C. The unemployment rate for youths is twice that of people over 24

D. The unemployed are relatively well educated

17. Disguised unemployed is?
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A. the rigid factor proportions in LDC agriculture and industry

B. when marginal revenue productivity of labor is zero

C. the same as seasonal unemployment of LDC agricultural

D. due to capital formation and the level of technology remaining constant.

18. The Keynesian remedy for unemployment is to ?
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A. decrease aggregate demand

B. reduce tax rates or lower interest rates

C. decrease private consumption and investment

D. decrease government spending