The Crowding Model of Discrimination Suggests That

question 217

Multiple Choice

The crowding model of discrimination suggests that

• A)women and selected minorities are systematically excluded from high-paying occupations and crowded into low-paying occupations, decreasing their wages and reducing domestic output.
• B)employers having high discrimination coefficients will be crowded out by nondiscriminating employers in the long run.
• C)firms will base hiring decisions on group averages, rather than on individual characteristics and productivity.
• D)occupational segregation is largely the result of freely made rational choices of women and minorities.

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