Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/34063 
Year of Publication: 
2006
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IZA Discussion Papers No. 2507
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Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
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.
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