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Earnings and Discrimination
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South-Western Earnings and Discrimination • Differences in Earnings in the United States Today • The typical physician earns about $200,000 a year. • The typical police officer earns about $50,000 a year. • The typical farm worker earns about $20,000 a year.
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South-Western Earnings and Discrimination • What causes earnings to vary so much? • Wages are governed by labor supply and labor demand. • Labor demand reflects the marginal productivity of labor. • In equilibrium, each worker is paid the value of his or her marginal contribution to the economy’s production of goods and services.
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South-Western SOME DETERMINANTS OF EQUILIBRIUM WAGES • Compensating differentials • Human capital • Ability, effort, and chance • Signaling • The superstar phenomenon
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South-Western Compensating Differentials • Compensating differential refers to a difference in wages that arises from nonmonetary characteristics of different jobs. • Coal miners are paid more than others with similar levels of education. • Night shift workers are paid more than day shift workers. • Professors are paid less than lawyers and doctors.
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South-Western Human Capital • Human capital is the accumulation of investments in people, such as education and on-the-job training. • The most important type of human capital is education.
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South-Western Human Capital • Education represents an expenditure of resources at one point in time to raise productivity in the future. • By the year 2000, a man with a college degree earned more than 89 percent more than without one. Women showed a 70 percent increase in earnings due to a college degree.
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South-Western Ability, Effort, and Chance • Why has the gap in earnings between skilled and unskilled workers risen in recent years? • International trade has altered the relative demand for skilled and unskilled labor. • Changes in technology have altered the relative demand for skilled and unskilled labor.
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South-Western Ability, Effort, and Chance • Natural ability is important for workers in all occupations. • Many personal characteristics determine how productive workers are and, therefore, play a role in determining the wages they earn.
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South-Western An Alternative View of Education: Signaling • Firms use educational attainment as a way of sorting between high-ability and low-ability workers. • It is rational for firms to interpret a college degree as a signal of ability.
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South-Western The Superstar Phenomenon • Superstars arise in markets that exhibit the following characteristics: • Every customer in the market wants to enjoy the good supplied by the best producer. • The good is produced with a technology that makes it possible for the best producer to supply every customer at a low cost.
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South-Western Above-Equilibrium Wages: Minimum-Wage Laws, Unions, and Efficiency Wages • Why are some workers’ wages set above the level that brings supply and demand into equilibrium? • Minimum-wage laws • Market power of labor unions • Efficiency wages
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South-Western Above-Equilibrium Wages: Minimum-Wage Laws, Unions, and Efficiency Wages • Unions • A union is a worker association that bargains with employers over wages and working conditions. • Strike • A strike refers to the organized withdrawal of labor from a firm by a union.
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South-Western Above-Equilibrium Wages: Minimum-Wage Laws, Unions, and Efficiency Wages • Efficiency Wages • The theory of efficiency wages holds that a firm can find it profitable to pay high wages because doing so increases the productivity of its workers. High wages may: • reduce worker turnover. • increase worker effort. • raise the quality of workers that apply for jobs at the firm.
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South-Western THE ECONOMICS OF DISCRIMINATION • Discrimination occurs when the marketplace offers different opportunities to similar individuals who differ only by race, ethnic group, sex, age, or other personal characteristics.
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South-Western THE ECONOMICS OF DISCRIMINATION • Although discrimination is an emotionally charged topic, economists try to study the topic objectively in order to separate myth from reality.
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South-Western Measuring Labor-Market Discrimination • Discrimination is often measured by looking at the average wages of different groups.
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South-Western Measuring Labor-Market Discrimination • Even in a labor market free of discrimination, different people have different wages.
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South-Western Measuring Labor-Market Discrimination • People differ in the amount of human capital they have and in the kinds of work they are willing and able to do.
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South-Western Measuring Labor-Market Discrimination • Simply observing differences in wages among broad groups—white and black, men and women—says little about the prevalence of discrimination.
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South-Western Measuring Labor-Market Discrimination • Because the differences in average wages among groups in part reflect differences in human capital and job characteristics, they do not by themselves say anything about how much discrimination there is in the labor market.
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South-Western Discrimination by Employers • Firms that do not discriminate will have lower labor costs when they hire the employees discriminated against.
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South-Western Discrimination by Employers • Nondiscriminatory firms will tend to replace firms that discriminate.
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South-Western Discrimination by Employers • Competitive markets tend to limit the impact of discrimination on wages. • Firms that do not discriminate will be more profitable than those firms that do discriminate.
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South-Western Discrimination by Customers and Governments • Although the profit motive is a strong force acting to eliminate discriminatory wage differentials, there are limits to its corrective abilities. • Customer preferences • Government policies
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South-Western Discrimination by Customers and Governments • Customer preferences: • If customers have discriminatory preferences, a competitive market is consistent with a discriminatory wage differential. • This will happen when customers are willing to pay to maintain the discriminatory practice.
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South-Western Discrimination by Customers and Governments • Government policies: • When the government mandates discriminatory practices or requires firms to discriminate, this may also lead to discriminatory wage differentials.
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South-Western Summary • Workers earn different wages for many reasons. • To some extent, wage differentials compensate workers for job attributes. • Workers with more human capital get paid more than workers with less human capital.
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South-Western Summary • The return to accumulating human capital is high and has increased over the past decade. • There is much variation in earnings that cannot be explained by things economists can measure.
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South-Western Summary • The unexplained variation in earnings is largely attributable to natural ability, effort, and chance. • Some economists have suggested that more- educated workers earn higher wages because workers with high natural ability use education as a way to signal their high ability to employers.
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South-Western Summary • Wages are sometimes pushed above the equilibrium level because of minimum-wage laws, unions, and efficiency wages. • Some differences in earnings are attributable to discrimination on the basis of race, sex, or other factors. • When measuring the amount of discrimination, one must correct for differences in human capital and job characteristics.
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South-Western Summary • Competitive markets tend to limit the impact of discrimination on wages. • Discrimination can persist in competitive markets if customers are • willing to pay more to discriminatory firms, • or if the government passes laws requiring firms to discriminate.
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