Re:When male CEOs have daughters, relative pay for women at ...
by bjourne on Monday July 15, 2013 @01:37PM
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That's a circular argument. "If wage discrimination existed, then the magic market would have corrected it. Ergo wage discrimination cannot exist." All reports about employers exploiting immigrant labour is false too.
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Re:When male CEOs have daughters, relative pay for women at ...
by theorique on Monday July 15, 2013 @03:53PM
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The lower price of (presumably illegal) immigrant labor has a structural difference - the idea is that both worker and employer are taking a risk by doing a transaction off the books.
However, the employer has greater leverage because he can report the illegal to USCIS, whereas the illegal worker presumably has a precarious financial and social situation in the country and has to "take what he can get". Hence, there's a downward pressure on wages.
Re:When male CEOs have daughters, relative pay for women at ...
by bjourne on Monday July 15, 2013 @06:27PM
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Whether they are legal or illegal immigrants is irrelevant to the argument presented. The market should identify a "business opportunity" and push salaries upwards to an equilibrium.
Re:When male CEOs have daughters, relative pay for women at ...
by theorique on Monday July 15, 2013 @09:18PM
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I think we're agreeing with each other.
There's no pure, efficient, "labor market" but instead lots of small, loosely connected "labor markets" with a variety of inefficiencies - lock-in, friction, imperfect information.
An employer can exploit illegal immigrant labor because it tends to be concentrated in lower-skilled, relatively interchangeable jobs, and because illegal immigrants are in a difficult spot.