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The youngsters who are ravaging France realize that they do not have a future. That is why they are burning cars. Unemployment is high and concentrated amongst French minorities because of specific labour market institutions. France has strict hiring and firing regulation that make it costly to dismiss workers and thus reduce job creation.________________
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A .  Salaries cannot fall below a legislated minimum wage, which is so high that the least productive and least skilled workers remain shut out of the labour market
B .  Those with a job are protected, those without one are hurt
C .  Wages are set in centralized negotiation by monopolistic unions and apply throughout the economy.
D .  The unions don’t care if the sons and daughters of immigrants living in ghettos have no opportunity of even starting a working life
E .  In short, taking risks in childhood is necessary for children’s intellectual development.
Answer: Option B
:
B
option (b)The paragraph is about the current unrest in France and the reason for it. One reason is unemployment which is due to labour-market institutions. The paragraph ends with the strict hiring and firing regulations that France has, option (b) follows as a logical consequence of this policyoption (a) and (c) can be eliminated as they talk about salaries, when the focus is ‘unemployment’. Option (d) talks about a union, which does not exist in the paragraph question

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