When Employment Discrimination Results from the Personal Prejudices of Employers

question 175

Multiple Choice

When employment discrimination results from the personal prejudices of employers,

• A) only legal requirements will be able to reduce the amount of employment discrimination.
• B) competitive markets will generally tend to promote discrimination as firms try to lower their costs to increase their profits.
• C) competitive markets will tend to make it costly for employers to discriminate, reducing the amount of discrimination.
• D) none of the above will be true.

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