In the Taste-For-Discrimination Model

question 190

Multiple Choice

In the taste-for-discrimination model,

• A) a decline in discrimination will reduce the actual African-American-white wage ratio.
• B) an increase in collective discrimination coefficients of employers will reduce the demand for African-American workers, decrease the African-American wage, and increase African-American employment.
• C) firms that discriminate will have lower costs than firms that do not discriminate.
• D) competitive forces will tend to reduce discrimination in the very long run.

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Higher Incomes

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