If national laws protecting the health and safety of workers completely eliminate any and all risk, then
A)workers in risky occupations become better off.
B)compensating wage differentials disappear and workers in risky occupations may be no better off.
C)compensating differentials would grow because workers could not be compensated by being given lower risk jobs.
D)more people would be employed.

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If national laws protecting health and safety completely eliminate any and all risk, then compensating wage differentials based on risk would disappear. This means that workers in risky occupations would no longer receive higher pay for taking on more risk, so they may not necessarily be better off.

If National Laws Protecting the Health and Safety of Workers