Ekkehart Schlicht (born in 1945, Kiel, Germany) is a German economist.
Ekkehart Schlicht was born in 1945 in the Northern German city of Kiel.
Among his work in labor economics are papers on the theory of wealth distribution, efficiency wages and wage discrimination, in which Schlicht offers rationales for why such commonly observed phenomena may emerge in a free market.
This is an alternative to other common approaches to efficiency wages such as the "discipline" theory by e.g. Shapiro and Stiglitz, or the "adverse selection" and "loyalty" models by e.g. Akerlof.
Some other publications by Schlicht have focused on seasonal adjustment of time series data and a "moving equilibrium theorem".