As Applied to Gender Discrimination, the Crowding Model of Occupational

question 22

Multiple Choice

As applied to gender discrimination, the crowding model of occupational segregation

• A) helps explain why women earn more than men.
• B) predicts that men's wages would fall and women's wages would rise if occupational segregation was eliminated.
• C) predicts that domestic output would decline if occupational segregation was ended.
• D) predicts that competition will eventually totally end discrimination.

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