The Disemployment Effect of a Minimum Wage Is Greater The

question 59

Multiple Choice

The disemployment effect of a minimum wage is greater the:

• A)more elastic the supply curve of unskilled workers,for a given demand curve.
• B)more inelastic the supply curve of unskilled workers,for a given demand curve.
• C)the more inelastic the demand curve for unskilled workers,for a given supply curve.
• D)the more elastic the demand curve for unskilled workers,for a given supply curve.

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Definitions:

Nonequivalent Control Group Design

A quasi-experimental research design where the experimental group and control group may not be strictly comparable at the outset of the experiment, lacking random assignment.

Selection Differences

Differences in the type of subjects who make up each group in an experimental design; this situation occurs whenparticipants elect which groupthey are to be assigned to.

Independent Variable

In experimental research, the factor that is altered by the scientist to observe how it affects a dependent variable.

Dependent Variable

A variable in an experiment that is expected to change in response to manipulations of the independent variable.