Discrimination Based on Individual Characteristics That Don't Affect Job Performance

question 40

Multiple Choice

Discrimination based on individual characteristics that don't affect job performance:

• A) is the hardest kind of discrimination to eliminate.
• B) is costly to a firm, and so market forces will work toward eliminating it.
• C) is not costly to a firm and thus is easy to eliminate.
• D) may be profit-maximizing in some cases.

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