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Workplaces in the Primary Economy and Wage Pressure in the Secondary Labor Market

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  • Josef Falkinger
  • Volker Grossmann

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This paper develops a two-sector general-equilibrium model in which firms in the primary economy have to create workplaces prior to production and product-market competition. For this, we introduce the endogenous sunk-cost approach with two-stage decisions of firms from IO in the macro labor literature. By hypothesizing that technological change has lowered marginal costs but has raised nonproduction requirements for providing workplaces, we are able to explain downsizing of low-skilled jobs in the primary economy despite wage flexibility ex ante. This leads to more accentuated labor-market segmentation, i.e., an increase in wage pressure in the secondary economy.

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  • Josef Falkinger & Volker Grossmann, 2003. "Workplaces in the Primary Economy and Wage Pressure in the Secondary Labor Market," Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE), Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen, vol. 159(3), pages 523-544, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:mhr:jinste:urn:sici:0932-4569(200309)159:3_523:witpea_2.0.tx_2-c
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    Cited by:

    1. Volker Grossmann, 2005. "White-collar employment, inequality, and technological change," Journal of Economics, Springer, vol. 10(1), pages 119-142, December.
    2. Egger, Hartmut & Grossmann, Volker, 2004. "Noncognitive Abilities and Within-Group Wage Inequality," IZA Discussion Papers 1024, IZA Network @ LISER.

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    JEL classification:

    • D20 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - General
    • J31 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials

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