Discrimination is higher in lower-skill occupations Increasing resume quality helps whites more than blacks Question 7 1 pts Doleac and Hansen (2016) find that ban-the-box policies reduce employment for young, low-skilled black and Hispanic men. What type of discrimination do they say this is evidence of? Statistical discrimination Preference discrimination Illegal discrimination Age discrimination Question 8 1 pts
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