Statistical Discrimination Refers to

question 233

Multiple Choice

Statistical discrimination refers to

• A)the crowding of women or minorities into low-paying occupations.
• B)significant differences in average levels of earnings by gender, race, and ethnicity, after accounting for nondiscriminatory factors.
• C)making individual hiring decisions on the basis of the characteristics of the group to which a person belongs, rather than on his or her personal characteristics and productivity.
• D)the 50-percent unexplained residual in studies that try to account for wage differences by gender, race, and ethnic origin.

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