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Wage discrimination and antidiscrimination policy in unionized industries
Minas Vlassis,Nick Drydakis +1 more
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In this article, the authors consider industries where the equally skilled workers/members of firm-specific monopoly unions can be grouped according to different reservation wages, and they show that, in absence of active antidiscrimination policy, discriminatory wage contracts across groups of employees may emerge, in equilibrium, under either oligopoly or a perfectly competitive product market.Abstract:
We consider industries where the equally skilled workers/members of firm-specific monopoly unions can be grouped according to different reservation wages. We show that, in absence of active antidiscrimination policy, discriminatory wage contracts across groups of employees may emerge, in equilibrium, under either oligopoly or a perfectly competitive product market. We subsequently propose that to combat wage discrimination a benevolent policy maker should under either market structure subsidize the employment of the low reservation wage group. The reason is that taxing wage discrimination, as an alternative antidiscrimination policy, always entails a welfare loss relative to the no policy/wage discrimination status quo.read more
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Local institutions, union wage effects and native–foreign wage gaps
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider local rent-sharing in Danish firms and show that it is important for wage differences among labour of various origins among workers of different origins in Denmark.
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Gender Discrimination, Education and Economic Growth in a Generalized Uzawa-Lucas Two-Sector Model
TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied the relationship between economic growth and gender discrimination in labor markets and education and proposed a growth model with endogenous wealth and human capital accumulation, gender time distribution between work, leisure and education under gender discrimination.
Identification, screening and steroetyping in labor market discrimination
M.C.M. Vendrik,C.A.A. Schwieren +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a microeconomic model of hiring and pay decisions by an employer is presented, where the authors integrate both responses in a model of uncertainty in decision-making, leading to less stereotyping of people and hence less discrimination, and social identification with an ingroup, inducing more reliance on stereotypic perceptions and prejudices, and hence more discrimination against an outgroup.
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Two-Person Cooperative Games
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A model of duopoly suggesting a theory of entry barriers
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