Wage discrimination
What Wage discrimination means in Economics A-Level, as defined for AQA.
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Paying different wages to workers doing the exact same job, unjustified by differences in marginal revenue product.
Paying different wages to workers with the same marginal revenue product for the exact same job.
Topics that use Wage discrimination
- Discrimination in the labour market (AQA A-Level)
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- Age discrimination
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