Selection wages and discrimination

Ekkehart Schlicht

Applicants for any given job are more or less suited to fill it, and the firm will select the best among them. Increasing the wage offer attracts more applicants and makes it possible to raise the hiring standard and improve the productivity of the staff. Wages that optimize on the trade-off between the wage level and the productivity of the workforce are known as selection wages. As men react more strongly to wage differentials than females, the trade-off is more pronounced for men and a profit-maximizing firm will offer a higher wage for men than for women in equilibrium.

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Year of publication:	2009
Authors:	Schlicht, Ekkehart
Publisher:	München : Univ., Volkswirtschaftl. Fak.
Subject:	Discrimination \| selection wages \| efficiency wages \| hiring standards \| monopsony \| employment criteria \| wage posting \| Reder competition \| social roles \| social stereotypes \| social multiplier \| statistical discrimination \| taste discrimination \| Arbeitsnachfrage \| Labor demand \| Lohnstruktur \| Wage structure \| Effizienzlohn \| Efficiency wages \| Monopson \| Monopsony \| Männer \| Men \| Theorie \| Theory

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Extent:	Online-Ressource (17 S., 325 KB) graph. Darst.
Series:	Münchener Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Beiträge : VWL ; discussion papers. - München : Univ., ZDB-ID 2296321-2. - Vol. 2009-14
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Arbeitspapier ; Working Paper ; Graue Literatur ; Non-commercial literature
Language:	English
Notes:	Systemvoraussetzungen: Acrobat Reader
Other identifiers:	hdl:10419/104288 [Handle]
Classification:	J31 - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials by Skill, Training, Occupation, etc ; J7 - Discrimination ; B54 - Feminist Economics ; D13 - Household Production and Intrahouse Allocation ; D42 - Monopoly
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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