The principle of “comparable worth” asserts that people with comparable, if not identical, skills and responsibilities should receive the same pay. If this principle were to become law, it would tend to

A. reduce the problem of the “cost disease of services.”
B. exacerbate the problem of the “cost disease” of the service sector.
C. be irrelevant to the “cost disease” problem.
D. eliminate the problem of externalities.


Answer: B

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