Q10

[logicfiend]

I choose D here, but had a lot of trouble with this passage. So I tried to work through this question below. Feedback would be greatly appreciated!

Q asks what the function is of the two immigrant streams, which is skilled professional/technical vs. low wage. Now there are two different schools of immigrant workers in the advanced economy, instead of the original low wage labor early on, which according to the passage, was a demand Chinese/Japanese immigration responded to.

So what is the function? In the first sentence of that graf, we're already made aware of the fact that the demand side was affected by institutional constraints, imm laws and changes to the labor market, hostility.

Given this introduction, we can take the immigrant stream was a consequence of the changing demands of the labor market. The demand in the adv economy was for a different type of worker, now skilled, technically proficient rather than just low wage. The two streams are a result of this change in demand. Therefore, D, the changing demand-side factor would be changes in the demand of the kind of labor that is now necessary. The two streams are a result of that change.

How does that sound?

To eliminate:

A) Human capital is discussed in cultural, supply side of the passage. Relates to the cultural values, thoughts, feelings, not demand/structural side.

B) operation of primary market: First, we don't see the operation of the primary market in this graf. We only see a description of it, which is that it consisted of these two streams. But the function of the stream is to show how the market changed, not how it operated. (right? this is the one i had some trouble eliminating)

C) Explains nature of early immigration: wrong because it shows how immigration was impacted by adv capitalist economy. Talking about later immigration, rather than early immigration.

E) influence on labor market: the streams would not be an influence on the labor market, the point again is to show how they're a consequence of the market changes, rather than being the catalyst for the change. (had some trouble with this one too?)

[rinagoldfield]

Wow logicfiend. Your explanation is fantastic. I think you hit all the key points.