Critics of Globalization Maintain That the Apparent Decline in Real

question 39

Multiple Choice

Critics of globalization maintain that the apparent decline in real wage rates of unskilled workers

• A)owes far more to a technology-induced shift within advanced economies toward jobs that require significant education and skills.
• B)is due to the migration of low-wage manufacturing jobs offshore and a corresponding reduction in demand for unskilled workers.
• C)has been impacted most by technological change.
• D)can be checked by increasing society's investment in education to reduce the supply of unskilled workers.

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Psychological Essentialism

The idea that people possess implicit theories about fundamental characteristics that all instances of a concept contain or embody.

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