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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