Selection wages: an example

Offering higher wages may enable firms to attract more applicants and screen them more carefully. If firms compete in this way in the labor market, selection wages emerge. This note illustrates this wage-setting mechanism. Selection wages may engender unconventional results, such as a pre-tax wage compression induced by the introduction of a progressive wage tax.

MoreLess

Year of publication:	2006
Authors:	Schlicht, Ekkehart
Publisher:	Bonn : Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

freely available

Full text |

More access options

Check Google Scholar

In German libraries (KVK)

I need help

More details

Series:	IZA Discussion Papers ; 2507
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Working Paper
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	54155221X [GVK] hdl:10419/34063 [Handle]
Source:	EconStor

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267997