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Explain the discrimination coefficient.
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Generally, the taste discrimination affects the hiring decision of the employers because prejudice blinds the employer to the actual monetary cost of hiring a particular employee. In such situation, the measurement of the strength of an individual’s discriminatory taste is called discrimination coefficient that is denoted by ‘d’.
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