For Workers Who Emigrate to the United States from a Country

question 4

Multiple Choice

For workers who emigrate to the United States from a country with a less equal distribution of earnings,

• A) the largest potential gain exists for unskilled workers.
• B) the largest potential gain exists for skilled workers.
• C) immigrants will be positively selected with respect to skills.
• D) immigrants will, on average, have a higher skill level than the workers who do not emigrate.

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Definitions:

Consistent

In statistics, a property of an estimator indicating that as the sample size increases, it converges in probability to the true parameter value.

T Distribution

A statistical distribution type that emerges when calculating the average of a population with a normal distribution, under conditions where there are few samples and the population's standard deviation is not known.

Degrees Of Freedom

The number of independent values within a calculation that can freely vary when estimating statistical parameters.

Standard Normal Distribution

A probability distribution that has a mean of zero and a standard deviation of one, represented by the bell curve where most occurrences take place near the mean.