Of the Following Views on the Effects of Immigration on the Receiving

question 220

Multiple Choice

Of the following views on the effects of immigration on the receiving nation's economic growth, which have NOT been suggested by economist Julian Simon?

• A) Technological progress is driven by population growth.
• B) Immigrants raise the standard of living of a nation's native population.
• C) Immigration increases a nation's labor pool and encourages ingenuity.
• D) Immigration costs the local population jobs and greatly lowers their incomes.

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T-statistic

A type of statistic used in hypothesis testing when the sample size is small and the population variance is unknown, it is based on the Student's t-distribution.

Z-score

A statistic that tells you how many standard deviations a given value is from the mean.

Sample Mean

The average value of a sample set, calculated by summing all observations and dividing by the number of observations.

Sampling Distribution

The probability distribution of a statistic based on a large number of samples drawn from a specific population.