Loose Leaf Labor Economics With Connect Access Card With Learnsmart Access Card
Loose Leaf Labor Economics With Connect Access Card With Learnsmart Access Card
7th Edition
ISBN: 9781259547805
Author: George J Borjas
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 7, Problem 1RQ
To determine

The reason for the positive skewness of the wage distribution.

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A distribution is said to be positively skewed if its scores fall toward the lower side of the scale and there are very few higher scores. The wage distribution is positively skewed. A small percent of workers earns a disproportionately large share of the returns for work and most of the workers earn low wages.

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