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Instruction Page 3
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In Part1, you will have one of the three types of the wage decision problem in each round:
One Job case 1
Two Jobs
One Job case 2
There are two empty job positions, one for Job 1 and one for Job 2.
There are two workers, Ann and Bob.
Each worker brings different revenue
With equal chance, Ann applies for Job 1 and Bob applies for Job 2 or vice versa.
That means, (Ann → Job1, Bob → Job2) or (Ann → Job2, Bob → Job1), each have equal probability.
You will submit your wage offers. You will submit one wage for each job. When you make the offers, you do not know who applies for which position.
Each worker has a minimum willingness to accept, which means the minimum wage that the worker would accept.
For each job and each worker,
The worker accepts any wage higher than or equal to the minimum willingness to accept
In that case, your profit is: Revenue the worker brings you - Wage Offer
Otherwise, the worker rejects the offered wage
In that case, your profit is 0
Your final profit is the summation of the profit from two jobs.
Below is an example of this wage decision.
Revenue from each Worker
Ann
Bob
Job 1
50
37
Job 2
45
30
Minimum Willingness to Accept
Ann
Bob
Job 1
30
35
Job 2
25
33
Suppose that you choose 35 for Job 1 and 27 for Job 2
Then, both Ann and Bob would accept the offer for Job 1 since 35 is greater than or equal both Ann and Bob's minimum willingness to accept for Job 1.
For Job 2, only Ann would accept the offer because 27 is greater than Ann's minimum willingness to accept and less than Bob's willingness to accept for Job 2.
With one half probability, Ann applies for Job 1 and accepts the offer and Bob applies for Job 2 but rejects the offer.
In this case, your payoff will be
Revenue from hiring Ann to Job 1 - your wage offer for Job 1
= 50- 35 = 15
With one half probability, Ann applies for Job 2 and accepts the offer and Bob applies for Job 1 and accepts the offer.
In this case, your payoff will be
Revenue from hiring Ann to Job 2 - your wage offer for Job 2
+ Revenue from hiring Bob to Job 1 - your wage offer for Job 1
= 45 - 27 + 37 - 35 = 20