In Empirical Analyses of Factors That Help Explain Wages

question 317

Multiple Choice

In empirical analyses of factors that help explain wages,

• A)effort and ability are not likely to contribute to large differences in wages in the U.S. economy.
• B)economists typically find that measurable factors explain less than half of the variation in wages.
• C)economists typically find few factors that are not explicitly measurable.
• D)unmeasurable influences on wage differences are found to be quite small.

Identify the conditions that lead to internal versus external attributions of behavior.

Apply knowledge of personal and situational attributions to workplace situations and performance assessment.

Grasp the influence of personal attributes and self-perception in the attribution process.

Understand the perceptual process in organizational contexts, including the steps from selection to response.

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