ECON 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Inequality Of Bargaining Power, Cosmetology, Funeral Director

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Human capital - the accumulated knowledge and skills that make a worker more productive. Greater human capital can raise your productivity, workers with more human capital tend to get paid more. Signal - an action taken to credibly convey information that is hard for someone else to verify. Example: going to school to get your bachelors degree is a signal to your employer that you are a good worker. It isn"t what you studied that matters, but it is the fact that you did something that many other people would find too challenging, and this conveys otherwise unobservable information about how productive you will be. Both signal and human capital hold some validity when economists attempt to explain why wages rise with education. Efficiency wage - a higher wage paid to encourage greater workers productivity, by increasing worker effort and reducing worker turnover.

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