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Positional Wages, Market Wages and Firm Size Author info | Abstract | Publisher info | Download info | Related research | Statistics Rene van den Brink () (Department of Economics, Free University Amsterdam)
Pieter H.M. Ruys () (Dept. of Econometrics & Operational Research, Tilburg University)
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We model a firm in an institutional market setting, consisting of a production technology and its governance. The governance consists of a hierarchical firm structure, a cost efficiency parameter,and an internal pay system. The depth of the firm is determined by profit maximization under the participation restriction that lowest wages meet reservation wages. Reservation wages are endogenously determined in the institutional market economy. We give conditions guaranteeing a finite optimal firm size. Using CES-production technologies we illustrate how firm size depends on labor substitutability, and show that a linear technology yields the deepest structure and a complementary the flattest structure.
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Keywords: Optimal firm size ; governance ; hierarchy ; internal organization structure ; cooperative game ; permission value ; labor substitutability ; general equilibrium ; Find related papers by JEL classification: D23 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Organizational Behavior; Transaction Costs; Property Rights J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity L22 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Firm Organization and Market Structure
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