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Pay Secrecy In Labor Markets With Matching Frictions

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  • Tomer Blumkin & David Lagziel, 2019. "Pay Secrecy In Labor Markets With Matching Frictions," Working Papers 1903, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Department of Economics.
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    Keywords

    secrecy; wage signaling; matching friction; tacit collusion;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • E24 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
    • D82 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
    • J30 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - General
    • J31 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
    • J71 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Discrimination - - - Hiring and Firing

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