Answer ALL questions in Part A and ONE question in Part B

Part A:  Answer ALL questions in Part A.  Provide a short answer (no more than 150 words) to each question.

1.   What is the Great Gatsby Curve?  What are its implications if it is true?  (10%)

2.   In 2018 the number of UK men and women found in the major occupational groups are as follows (the figures are in thousands):

Calculate the index of dissimilarity of the above table.  Comment on the pattern of occupational sex segregation that the table shows.  (10%, please show your workings.)

3.   Explain Milanovic’s three concepts of global inequality and what kind of data you need to measure each concept.  (10%)

4.   The following intergenerational social mobility table is for men from the 1970 British Cohort Study.

Calculate the odds of those from salariat origin achieving salariat destination rather  than working class destination.  Calculate the comparable odds of those from working class origin.  What is the odds ratio in this case?  What is your interpretation of the odds ratio calculated?  (10%, please show your workings)

5.   What is the Easterlin paradox concerning wellbeing and income?  (10%)        Part B:  Answer ONE of the following questions in no more than 1,000 words (50%).

1.   What is ‘maximally maintained inequality’ in educational attainment?

2.   Compare and contrast taste-based discrimination and statistical discrimination.