Economists Who Attempt to Explain the Increasing Earnings Gap Between

question 453

Multiple Choice

Economists who attempt to explain the increasing earnings gap between skilled and unskilled workers in the United States offer two main hypotheses. Both hypotheses

• A)suggest that, over time, the demand for unskilled labor has risen relative to the demand for skilled labor.
• B)suggest that, over time, the demand for skilled labor has risen relative to the demand for unskilled labor.
• C)emphasize the shrinking importance of international trade in recent years.
• D)emphasize the growing importance of women and teenagers in the workforce in recent years.

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Definitions:

Nonanalytic Concept Formation

Cognitive processes that implicitly acquire knowledge of a complex structure during the memorization of examples.

Reber

Refers to psychologist Arthur Reber, known for his work on implicit learning and the cognitive unconscious, particularly how people can learn complex information without being aware of the learning process.

Semantic Priming

A phenomenon in which exposure to one word (e.g., nurse) facilitates the recognition of semantically related words (e.g., doctor).

Concept Usage

The ways in which ideas or abstractions are employed in different contexts to convey meanings or understand phenomena.