Week 14

Question 1

Define precarious work

Answer 1

Employment. That is uncertain, unpredictable, and risky from the point of you of the work.

Question 2

The transformation of employment relations: precarious work as the new _____

Answer 2

Normal

Question 3

Precarious work as the new normal: reconceptualization of the employment ______

Answer 3

Contract

Question 4

Transformation of employment relations:

Can be credited to watch 4 big ideas

Answer 4

Globalization

TECH CHANGE

UNION DECLINE

Political shifts

Question 5

Skill-biased tech change: is the coincidence of what 2 trends

Answer 5

Increase in earnings in equality between University in high school, educated workers

Rise of computing

Question 6

What is the single most important factor behind the increase in earning any quality across the wage structure?

Answer 6

Tech change

Question 7

Three types of jobs susceptible to computerization

Answer 7

Have well defined tasks

Are routinized

Noncognitive/creative

Question 8

Two reasons why services are difficult to computerize

Answer 8

Difficult to automate (interpersonal adaptability)

Difficult to outsource/trade (in person production)

Question 9

The service industry has _______ educational requirements

Answer 9

Minimal

Question 10

Define algorithmic bias

Answer 10

System generated or reinforced difference between groups

Question 11

Three ideas of algorithmic bias

Answer 11

Directly encoded

Indirectly encoded

Bias training data