front 1 Many migrants are involved in "3-D" jobs that employ: | back 1 vulnerable labor |
front 2 People who go to a foreign country legally to perform certain types of jobs are known as: | back 2 guest workers |
front 3 The vulnerable workforce: | back 3 is less likely to have a contract or other formal work arrangement. |
front 4 Before the economic crisis, the worldwide trend in vulnerable employment was upward. | back 4 False |
front 5 The loss by a country of its most intelligent and best-educated people, for professional opportunities and economic reasons, is known as: | back 5 brain drain |
front 6 Populations in many developed countries are projected to decline in the coming years due to: | back 6 low birth rates |
front 7 In all OECD countries, earnings of women are below those of men, with an average difference of about 20 percent. | back 7 True |
front 8 Labor _____ refers to the skills, education, and attitudes of available employees. | back 8 quality |
front 9 UNICEF's Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), establishes basic standards that should be observed with respect to children worldwide. Its four core principles are: respect for the views of the child, devotion to the best interests of the child, the right to life, survival, and development, and: | back 9 nondiscrimination |
front 10 For the past four decades, there has been an increase in the number of union members in most of the developed countries, especially among workers in industrial sectors. | back 10 False |
front 11 The World Bank says that children's work can be in their own interests and that a family's survival may depend on it. | back 11 True |
front 12 _____, the denial of equal participation in a society for women, developed as an inherent part of many cultures, based as they are on patriarchal values. | back 12 Sexism |
front 13 Populations in many developing countries are projected to decline in the coming years, due to factors such as low birth rates and high levels of immigration. | back 13 False |
front 14 Approximately 38 percent of the world's 15- to 24-year-olds, a key source of new workers during the next decade, live in just two developing countries: India and: | back 14 China |