Consider a law that limits women's access to certain "dangerous" occupations like coal mining and military combat service. Such a law would likely reduce women's wages because:

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By limiting women's access to certain occupations, the labor supply in female-intensive occupations would increase, leading to a potentially oversaturated market of female workers. This oversupply of labor would drive down wages for women both in the dangerous occupations they are prohibited from and in the female-intensive occupations where competition for jobs would increase.

Consider a Law That Limits Women's Access to Certain "Dangerous