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Question 1666 Income Inequality

Since standard measures of income distribution leave out in-kind transfers, how do they relate to the true inequality of living standards?

Correct answer A. They exaggerate the inequality of living standards

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Question 1667 Income Inequality

What effect will a spell of unemployment caused by a recession have on a worker’s income?

Correct answer D. It will reduce current income but not necessarily permanent income

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Question 1669 Income Inequality

Under the maximin criterion from Rawls’s theory of justice, what should the government aim to do?

Correct answer D. Maximise the well-being of the worst-off person in society

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Question 1670 Income Inequality

How does utilitarianism suggest the government should maximise the total utility of everyone in society?

Correct answer B. By redistributing income from rich to poor because, owing to diminishing marginal utility of income, taking a pound from the rich reduces their utility by less than the gain from giving that pound to the poor

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Question 1671 Income Inequality

Why does Rawls’s maximin criterion not call for redistribution that equalises everyone’s income?

Correct answer C. Such redistribution would remove the incentive to work hard, so society's total income would fall and the least well-off person would be worse off than under a system with some income inequality

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Question 1672 Income Inequality

Why do current anti-poverty programmes discourage work?

Correct answer A. Benefits are reduced at such a high rate when recipients earn more income that there is little or no incentive to work once receiving benefits

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Question 1673 Income Inequality

What does the poverty trap refer to?

Correct answer C. A situation in which those receiving state benefits may be almost no better off if they work more, because doing so reduces the benefit income they are entitled to and increases the tax they pay

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Question 1675 Income Inequality

According to the substitution effect of higher wages, what happens as the wage rate rises?

Correct answer B. Leisure becomes more expensive and households buy less of it

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Question 1680 Income Inequality

An unemployed salesperson turns down a job paying Rs500 a week and keeps searching for better pay. What is the cost of this continued search?

Correct answer D. The Rs500 weekly salary that he has forgone and the monetary costs incurred by continuing to search

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