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Efficiency wages : variants and implications
Schlicht, Ekkehart - 2016
Higher wages increase labor costs but improve the productivity of the labor force through several channels. If firms … take this into account and set their wages accordingly, the resulting wages may fail to adjust demand and supply but may … higher wages. All these phenomena are well established empirically. Efficiency wage theory provides an integrated explanation …
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Wage discrimination against immigrants : measurement with firm-level productivity data
Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, François - 2016
This paper is one of the first to use employer-employee data on wages and labor productivity to measure discrimination …
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Evaluating the effect of beauty on labor market outcomes : a review of the literature
Liu, Xing Michelle; Sierminska, Eva - 2014
An important underlying determinant of wage discrimination, as well as the gender wage gap is the way the labor market rewards individual physical attractiveness. This article surveys the extensive empirical literature of the effect of physical attractiveness on labor market outcomes. Particular...
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Wage discrimination against immigrants : measurement with firm-level productivity data
Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, François - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011715857
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Just wages in which markets? : the embeddedness of markets and the very idea of an unjust wage
Herzog, Lisa - In: Erasmus journal for philosophy and economics : EJPE 11 (2018) 2, pp. 105-123
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Discrimination and Workers' Expectations
Filippin, Antonio - 2003
The paper explores the role of workers? expectations as an original explanation for the puzzling long run persistence of observed discrimination against some minorities in the labor market. A game of incomplete information is presented, showing that ex ante identical groups of workers may be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261557
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Discrimination and Workers' Expectations: Experimental Evidence
Filippin, Antonio - 2003
This paper is an experimental analysis of the role played by workers? expectations in explaining the puzzling long-run persistence of observed discrimination against certain minorities in the labor market. The experiment provides some evidence supporting the theoretical prediction that unequal...
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On Vertically Challenged and Horizontal Equity : Reassessing Anti-Discrimination Rules
Sadka, Efraim; Margalioth, Yoram; Blumkin, Tomer - 2004
We consider a model of prejudice-driven discrimination, where the advantaged 'tall' discriminate against the disadvantaged 'short'. We employ an egalitarian social welfare function to compare anti-discrimination legal rules with a non-discriminatory ('height-blind') income tax.
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The welfare effects of discrimination in insurance
Noll, Rob van der - 2005
We study an insurance model characterized by a continuum of risk types, private information and a competitive supply side. We use the model to investigate the welfare effects of discrimination (also known as risk selection). We postulate that a test is available that determines whether an...
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Third-degree price discrimination in a short-stay accommodation industry
Marsden, Ann; Sibly, Hugh - In: Applied economics 49 (2017) 51, pp. 5166-5182
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