The Government Can Assist in Reducing the Level of Structural

question 69

Multiple Choice

The government can assist in reducing the level of structural unemployment by

• A) providing unemployment insurance.
• B) establishing government regulations on firing employees.
• C) taxing employers who hire low-skilled workers.
• D) providing job-training programs.
• E) incentivizing companies to update their current technology.

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Definitions:

Directional

Pertaining to or indicating the direction in which something is moving or facing; also refers to evolutionary changes in a population that favor a specific set of traits.

Stabilizing

A type of natural selection that favors the average individuals in a population, thus maintaining the population’s genetic stability over time.

Disruptive

Pertaining to a type of natural selection that favors extreme values of a trait over intermediate values, potentially leading to speciation.

Disruptive Selection

A type of natural selection that favors extreme values of a trait over intermediate values, leading to two or more contrasting phenotypes in the population.