Japanese employers tend to hire employees right out of college and train them for a lifetime job with the company. Over time they found that women often, but not always, married after a few years and left the company so they were not good training investments. Based on this experience, and despite the exceptions, firms stopped hiring any women for jobs that require substantial training. This practice is called
A. economic discrimination.
B. statistical discrimination.
C. compensating differentials.
D. the substitution effect.
Answer: B
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