PT110.S2.Q13

PrepTest 110 - Section 2 - Question 13

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Essayist: Support One of the claims of laissez-faire economics is that increasing the minimum wage reduces the total number of minimum-wage jobs available. ██ █ ██████ ██████ ████████ ██ ███ █████ ████ █████ ██ ████████ ██ ███ ███████ █████ █████████ ███████████ ████ ██ ███████ ███ ████ ██████ ██ ████████████ █████████ ██ ██████ ███ █████████ ██████████ █████████████ █████████ ██ ███ ████████ █████████

Summary

Laissez-faire economics isn’t entirely accurate. Why not? Because it says that increasing the minimum wage will reduce the total number of min-wage jobs, and yet in a certain sector, increasing the minimum wage had no effect on such jobs.

Notable Assumptions

The author argues that increasing the minimum wage doesn’t decrease the total number of min-wage jobs. But he only demonstrates that it doesn’t decrease the number of such jobs in one single sector. What happens in other sectors when the minimum wage increases? Do those jobs stay put too, or do they decrease? The author must assume that the min-wage job market at large behaves like it does in the fast-food sector when the minimum wage is increased.

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13.

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a

If laissez-faire economics █████ ██ █████████ ██████████ █████ ███ ███████ █████ ████ ███ ███ █████████ ██ █████████████ █████████ ███ ███████████

b

Minimum-wage job availability ██ █████████ ███████████ ████████ ██ ███ █████ ███ ██████████████ ██ ████████████ ███ ████████████ ██ ████████

c

No study has ████ █████ ████ █ ████████ ███ █████████ ███ ██████ ██ ███ ████████████ █████████ █████ ██ ████████ ██ ███ ███████ █████

d

The fast-food restaurants ████████ ██ ███ █████ ███ ███ ████████ ███ ███████ ████ ████ ██ ██████████

e

The national unemployment ████ ███ ███ ████████ █████████ ███ ████████ ██ ███ ███████ █████

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