AQA A Level · 7136 · Paper 1: Markets and market failure
4.1.6.7 Discrimination in the Labour Market
A-level only
Everything you need for questions on discrimination in the labour market, in the words examiners reward. An interactive seven-step lesson goes with it.
What's on this sheet
- What is labour market discrimination?
- Conditions for wage discrimination
- How discrimination affects wages and employment
- Advantages and disadvantages of wage discrimination
- Real-world evidence and policy
- Classic question: is the gender pay gap evidence of discrimination?
- Side 2: practice tasks, where the marks go, and exam-style questions
- Separate answer key
The lesson in seven steps
- Two groups, same productivity
- What makes up a gender pay gap?
- Discrimination or not?
- Measuring pay gaps
- Discrimination and the economy
- Build the chain
- Exam practice
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