Concurrence imparfaite et discrimination sur le marché du travail

Journal article: Discrimination models have difficulties to reproduce a persistent discrimination without assuming that prejudiced firms are more productive and results lead to workers' segregation. The model uses oligopsony and heterogeneity of workers' preferences to obtain a persistent discrimination. Firms hire both types of workers and pay a lower wage to the workers discriminated against. Consequently, the existence of discrimination allows a nonzero profit for unprejudiced firms and they have also no incentives to push out prejudiced firms.

Author(s)

Clémence Berson

Journal
  • Revue Economique
Date of publication
  • 2011
Keywords JEL
J42 J71 L13
Keywords
  • Discrimination
  • Oligopsony
  • Wage gap
Pages
  • 409-417
Version
  • 1
Volume
  • 62