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Which of the following is NOT a form of wage erosion?
Which of the following is NOT a form of wage erosion?
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2013-09-08
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Which of the following is NOT a form of wage erosion?
Everyone knows about unemployment. But millions of working Americans are now facing a less familiar and perhaps more troubling problem: shrinking wages. It’s a phenomenon that takes many forms. Some workers have had to swallow outright pay cuts. Others have lost their jobs and, in the tough labor market of today, have had to settle for new ones at less pay. Still others — including employees at such giants as AT&T, Boise Cascade and Starwood Hotels — have had to accept pay freezes that, when rising prices are factored in, amount to reduced compensation. To add insult to injury, companies everywhere are reducing bonuses and overtime and eroding health and pension benefits.
The numbers are grim. For the 500,000 workers laid off since January, the average job search has stretched to a 19-year high of nearly five months — about twice the duration of the typical severance package. According to outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas, 17% of those who do find work — nearly double the historical percentage — are settling for less pay. The net result of the various pressures on pay is in the first three months of 2003, median weekly earnings adjusted for inflation fell 1.5%, according to the U.S. Labor Department. That’s the biggest drop since 1991, according to Jared Bernstein, an economist at the Economic Policy Institute, a research group based in Washington. Wage erosion partly explains why the Federal Reserve Board openly frets about the threat of deflation, a downward spiral in prices that can cripple an economy by making debt repayment more difficult and encouraging consumers to wait for even lower prices. Adding fuel to the deflation debate, the cost of goods to both consumers and manufacturers fell in April, officials reported last week.
选项
A、17% of the laid-off workers are settling for less pay.
B、Median weekly earnings have fell by 1.5% since January.
C、50,000 workers have lost their jobs since January.
D、Historically 8.5% of the laid-off workers would settle for less pay.
答案
C
解析
数字信息的找寻和推断。根据选项中出现的各个数字信息,分别与原文对照,发现选项a和d的内容可与原文第二段第三句“17% of those who do find work—nearly double thehistorical percentage—are settling for less pay”相对应,即“下岗再就业的人中17%工资较以前有所减少,这一数字是历史水平的两倍”,由此可推断,历史记录中有8.5%的再就业者工资比以前有减少,选项B的内容可与第二段第四旬“median weekly earnings…fell 1.5%”相对应;选项C的内容可找寻到原文第二段第二句“For the 500,000 workers laid off since January…”将选项数字与原文对照,可知该选项内容与原文不符。因此,选项C是正确答案。
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