An Economic Theory of Labor Discrimination

This article presents a theory of labor discrimination based on the behavior of economic agents that maximize utility and profits. The article makes use of a monopsony that hires workers that have the same labor productivity, to focus on perfect discrimination; discrimination by quantities of labor...

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Autores:

Vallejo, Hernán

Tipo de recurso:

Work document

Fecha de publicación:

2021

Institución:

Universidad de los Andes

Repositorio:

Séneca: repositorio Uniandes

Idioma:

eng

OAI Identifier:

oai:repositorio.uniandes.edu.co:1992/49602

Acceso en línea:

http://hdl.handle.net/1992/49602

Palabra clave:

Monopsony
Labor discrimination
Asymmetric information
Self-selection
Adverse Selection
Market power
J31, J42, J71

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openAccess

License

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/