Male and female workers are equally productive and their labor supply curves are given by
where the subscripts refer to male and female, and Wm and Wf are the respective weekly wages.
The firms combine to form a single monopsony that can pay different wages to men and women. Find Wm ,Wf, Lm, Lf and Q.
There are 420 workers in the economy, 294 men and 126 women, all equally productive in both jobs.
All workers prefer auto repair work to coal mining, but the extent of this preference varies from one
worker to another. The distribution of equalizing differences over workers is uniform between 0 and
$42. Sex and occupational preferences are independently distributed.