2 Discuss the kind of situation with your partner.

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Card 35

1 Speak about automation as the main cause of unemployment Take into consideration the following points:

* automation neither creates nor destroys jobs

* the real impact of it is an increase in production

* automation exerts a positive influence on economic wellfare

Suggest ways of creating new jobs ( the rapid expansion of jobs in the high-tech computer-oriented sectors)

2 Discuss the kind of situation with your partner.

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Card 36

1 Speak about voluntary and involuntary unemployment Take into consideration the following points:

* reasons why people might voluntarily choose not to work at the going wage rate

* voluntary unemployment might well be economically efficient

* involuntary unemployment arises when qualified workers are unable to get jobs at the goin wage rates.

Suggest ways of moving wages to clear labor markets.

2 Discuss the kind of situation with your partner.

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Card 37

1 Speak about the functions of financial intermediaries. Take into consideration the following points:

* commercial banks

* saving and loan associations

* saving banks

* credit unions

* money market mutual funds

Provide a solution to further perspectives of the banking system in Kazakhstan.

2 Discuss the kind of situation with your partner.

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Card 38

1 Speak about the international migration Take into consideration the following points:

* reasons that make people migrate from one country to another

* concentration of migrants in urban areas generate social tensions and increase crime rates

* who gains and who loses as a consequence of eliminating occupational segregation

Suggest ways of eliminating migration.

2 Discuss the kind of situation with your partner.

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Card 39

1 Speak about the immigration reform: the Simpson- Rodino Act of 1986. Take into consideration the following points:

* amnesty

* employer sanctions

* temporary farm labor

Suggest ways of eliminating migration.

2 Discuss the kind of situation with your partner.

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Card 40

1 Speak about guest worker problems Take into consideration the following points:

* economic

* educational

* racial

Suggest ways of eliminating migration.

2 Discuss the kind of situation with your partner.

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Card 41

1 Speak about immigration Take into consideration the following points:

* a need for more people of working age to sustain the total population

* the level of prosperity doesn’t depend on the level of population

* immigration discourages people from training

* immigration depresses wages

Suggest ways of eliminating immigration.

2 Discuss the kind of situation with your partner.

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Card 42

1 Speak about political or economic refugees. Take into consideration the following points:

* refugees are fleeing oppression or poverty

* they remain burdens on the host country

* Palestinians who fled from Israel

* Cuban refugees in the US

* Mexicans in the US

Provide a solution to their problems.