Impact of Sex on Worker’s Effort within Efficiency Wage Setting

Abstract

We provided a simple equilibrium model where both the wage paid by firms and the sexual frequency of their workers are determined in equilibrium. The analysis is carried out within an efficiency wage model where the worker’s effort is influenced, in addition to wage, by the willingness to work. The concept of equilibrium used in this paper is that of Nash.

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P. Loureiro, J. Orrillo and T. Moreira, "Impact of Sex on Worker’s Effort within Efficiency Wage Setting," Theoretical Economics Letters, Vol. 2 No. 2, 2012, pp. 130-132. doi: 10.4236/tel.2012.22024.

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