TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Schlicht, Ekkehart
        TI  - Selection Wages: An Example
        PY  - 2006/Dec/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 2507
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp2507
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - wage-tax
KW  - job-specific pay
KW  - wage formation
KW  - efficiency wage
KW  - incentive wage
KW  - mobility
        ER  -