ECO102H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 19, 10: Deadweight Loss, Social Cost, Efficiency Wage

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Compensating differential: a difference in wages that arises from nonmonetary characteristics of different jobs. Human capital: the accumulation of investments in people. The most important type of human capital is education. The difference in wages between highly educated workers and less educated workers may be considered a compensating differential for the cost of becoming educated. One reason for above-equilibrium wages is minimum wage laws. A second reason that wages might rise above their equilibrium level is the market power of labour unions. A third reason for is suggested by the theory of efficiency wages: 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, and raise the quality of workers who apply for jobs at the firm. Above-equilibrium wages raises the quantity of labour supplied and reduces the quantity of labour demanded. The result is a surplus of labour, or unemployment.

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