In Mexico, many garment or tailoring shops found they could entice many young people to work for them if they offered clean, air-conditioned work areas with high-quality locker rooms to clean up in after the workday. Typically, traditional garment shops had to offer ________ to get workers to apply for the hard, repetitive, and somewhat dangerous work.

A. compensating differentials
B. benchmark competitive wages
C. monopoly wages
D. wages based on human capital development of each employee


Answer: A

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