Most workplaces are subject to federal minimum wage guidelines, but restaurants are not. Currently, restaurant owners are
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Most workplaces are subject to federal minimum wage guidelines, but restaurants are not. Currently, restaurant owners are required to pay waiters and waitresses only $2.13 per hour, provided that those servers are eligible to receive tips.
a. Explain how this pay scheme (low minimum plus tips) resolves a principal–agent problem for restaurant owners.
b. Explain how this pay scheme may backfire by creating a different principal–agent problem for restaurant owners.
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Microeconomics
ISBN: 9781319105563
3rd Edition
Authors: Austan Goolsbee, Steven Levitt, Chad Syverson
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