Unlike Minimum Wage Laws, Wage Subsidies

question 89

Multiple Choice

Unlike minimum wage laws, wage subsidies:

• A)discourage firms from hiring the working poor
• B)cause unemployment
• C)help only wealthy workers
• D)raise living standards of the working poor without creating unemployment

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