As the mayor of a local town, Wang has the power to repeal workplace safety laws. For construction workers building the local school, the repeal of all workplace safety laws would

Options:

A) reduce their wages because of less severe positive compensating differentials.

B) increase their wages because of less severe positive compensating differentials.

C) reduce their wages because of more severe positive compensating differentials.

D) increase their wages because of more severe positive compensating differentials.

E) result in no effect on their wages because of offsetting differentials

D) increase their wages because of more severe positive compensating differentials.

Explanation: By repealing workplace safety rules and laws, the associated risk involved in working at a construction company in the town increases, due to the increase in risk due to the annulment of the safety laws, the job becomes more undesirable and hence there is a need for increased motivation in other to entice workers usually in the form of wage Increment, this increase in wage is called the compensating differential. Since the job as become undesirable and the Increment is used to compensate for the risk attached, then the differential is said to be positive. Hence, there is an increase in wages because of more severe positive compensating differentials

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