Selection wages : an illustration

Ekkehart Schlicht

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

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Year of publication:	2006
Authors:	Schlicht, Ekkehart
Publisher:	München : Univ., Volkswirtschaftl. Fak.
Subject:	wage formation \| efficiency wage \| incentive wage \| mobility \| job-specific pay \| wage-tax \| Arbeitsnachfrage \| Labor demand \| Lohntheorie \| Wage theory \| Theorie \| Theory

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Extent:	Online-Ressource (7 S., 492 KB)
Series:	Münchener Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Beiträge : VWL ; discussion papers. - München : Univ., ZDB-ID 2296321-2. - Vol. 2006-37
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Graue Literatur ; Non-commercial literature ; Arbeitspapier ; Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Record-last-verified: 07-06-07
Other identifiers:	hdl:10419/104185 [Handle]
Classification:	J31 - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials by Skill, Training, Occupation, etc ; J41 - Contracts: Specific Human Capital, Matching Models, Efficiency Wage Models, and Internal Labor Markets ; J62 - Occupational and Intergenerational Mobility ; J63 - Turnover; Vacancies; Layoffs
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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