Studies That Try to Measure the Factors That Explain Wage

question 190

Multiple Choice

Studies that try to measure the factors that explain wage differences have shown that:

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

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