A Large Company Is Accused of Gender Discrimination in Wages $\beta$

question 16

Multiple Choice

.A large company is accused of gender discrimination in wages.The following model has been estimated from the company's human resource information ln(WAGE) = 1.439 + .0834 EDU + .0512 EXPER + .1932 MALE
Where WAGE is hourly wage,EDU is years of education,EXPER is years of relevant experience,and MALE indicates the employee is male.What hypothesis would you test to determine if the discrimination claim is valid?

• A)H₀:\(\beta\)_MALE = 0 ;H₁: \(\beta\)_MALE ≥ 0
• B)H₀:\(\beta\)_MALE = \(\beta\)_EDU = \(\beta\)_EXPER = 0 ;H₁: \(\beta\)_MALE ≠ 0 and \(\beta\)_EDU ≠ 0 and \(\beta\)_EXPER ≠ 0
• C)H₀:\(\beta\)_MALE = \(\beta\)_EDU = \(\beta\)_EXPER = 0 ;H₁: \(\beta\)_MALE ≠ 0 or \(\beta\)_EDU ≠ 0 or \(\beta\)_EXPER ≠ 0
• D)H₀:\(\beta\)_MALE ≤ \(\beta\)_EDU or \(\beta\)_MALE ≤ \(\beta\)_EXPER ;H₁: \(\beta\)_MALE > \(\beta\)_EDU or \(\beta\)_MALE > \(\beta\)_EXPER

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