This paper contributes to the search theory of unemployment by endogenously generating matching functions for skilled and unskilled workers from a wage-posting game. The model is capable of producing a positive skill premium and a positive wage differential among homogeneous unskilled workers. The skill premium arises from a skill-biased technology; the wage differential among unskilled workers sustains because a lower wage is compensated by a higher chance of getting the job. The model provides useful explanations for the observed dynamic patterns of within-skill and between-skill wage differentials in the 1970s and 1980s and for the relative cyclical volatility of hours of work by different skill groups of workers.
Ce papier contribue à la théorie ``search'' du chômage par la génération endogène de fonctions d'appariement pour des travailleurs qualifiés et non-qualifiés dans un jeu d'affichage de salaire. Le modèle est capable de produire une prime de qualification positive ainsi qu'un différentiel de salaire positif entre les travailleurs homogènes non qualifiés. La prime de qualification apparaît en raison d'une technologie biaisée par les qualifications; le différentiel de salaire parmi les travailleurs non qualifiés trouve son origine dans un salaire plus faible compensé par une plus forte probabilité d'obtenir l'emploi. Le modèle offre des explications utiles pour l'évolution observée des différentiels de salaire à l'intérieur des classes de qualifications et entre elles durant les années 1970 et 1980 ainsi que pour la variabilité relative des heures de travail des différents groupes à travers le cycle.
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Benoit Julien & John Kennes & Ian King, 2000.
"Bidding for Labor,"
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Julien, B. & Kennes, J. & King, I., 1998.
"Bidding for Labour,"
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Acemoglu, Daron & Shimer, Robert, 1999.
"Holdups and Efficiency with Search Frictions,"
International Economic Review,
Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania and Osaka University Institute of Social and Economic Research Association, vol. 40(4), pages 827-49, November.
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