In a Labor-Market Pooling Equilibrium with High-Skill and Low-Skill Workers

question 107

Multiple Choice

In a labor-market pooling equilibrium with high-skill and low-skill workers and where a costly educational degree is used as a signaling device,all else equal,an increase in the wage differential between high- and low-skill workers leads to

• A) an increase in the required minimum share of high-skill workers.
• B) a decrease in the required minimum share of high-skill workers.
• C) no change in the required minimum share of high-skill workers.
• D) None of the above answers are correct.

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