Paying a Person a Lower Wage or Excluding a Person

question 81

Multiple Choice

Paying a person a lower wage or excluding a person from an occupation on the basis of an irrelevant characteristic such as race or gender

• A)is economic discrimination.
• B)violates federal comparable worth laws.
• C)can be explained by negative feedback loops.
• D)creates differences in wages that economists call "compensating differentials."

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