The value of leisure or disutility of work: Wage dispersion in a model of search with endogenous effort
Abstract
Wage dispersion is generated in a sequential search environment through heterogeneity in firm productivity along with an individual wage-effort trade-off. For a given degree of TFP dispersion, the framework can generate any amount of wage dispersion. Calibrated to generate realistic gains from trade, it is able to generate the kind of wage dispersion observed in data.Download Info
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Paper provided by University at Albany, SUNY, Department of Economics in its series Discussion Papers with number 12-07.Length:
Date of creation: 2012
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