The Basic Approach to Analyzing Whether There Is Wage Discrimination

question 7

Multiple Choice

The basic approach to analyzing whether there is wage discrimination against women is to:

• A) compare the actual wage of women to the predicted wage that they would earn given female attributes and coefficients from the male equation.
• B) compare the actual mean wage of women to the actual mean wage of men.
• C) compare the actual wage of women to the predicted wage that they would earn given female attributes and coefficients from the female equation.
• D) compare the actual wage of women to the predicted wage that they would earn given male attributes and coefficients from the male equation.
• E) search for anecdotal cases of low-paid women that appear to be affected by discrimination.

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