Nurses who work in hospitals often are required to work on weekends, whereas nurses who work in doctors' offices generally only work Monday through Friday. Hospital nurses who must work on weekends are usually paid more than nurses working in doctors' offices for the same work even if they have the same skills and education. This difference in pay is attributed to
A)an efficiency wage.
B)compensating differential.
C)differences in the marginal product of labor.
D)differences in human capital.

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The difference in pay is a compensating differential, which means that the higher pay compensates for the inconvenience of having to work on weekends. It is not an efficiency wage, which is a higher wage meant to increase worker productivity. Nor is it due to differences in marginal product of labor or differences in human capital.

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