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Compensating Wage Differentials, Workers' Heterogeneity and Imperfect Competition in the Labor Market

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  • Wauthy, Xavier

    (UNIVERSITE CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN, Institut de Recherches Economiques et Sociales (IRES) ; Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research (FNRS))

  • Zenou, Yves

    (UNIVERSITE CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN, Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE); Université de Paris-Assas, ERMES)

Abstract

In this paper, we explore a simple model which focuses on the joint role of workers' heterogeneity and imperfect competition in the endogeneous formation of labor market equilibria. We show that, compared to the competitive case, imperfect competition leads to a misallocation of workers and to an increase of the level of unemployment when the population is heterogeneous. When workers are all identical, competitive and Nash allocations become the same.

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  • Wauthy, Xavier & Zenou, Yves, 1997. "Compensating Wage Differentials, Workers' Heterogeneity and Imperfect Competition in the Labor Market," LIDAM Discussion Papers IRES 1997003, Université catholique de Louvain, Institut de Recherches Economiques et Sociales (IRES).
  • Handle: RePEc:ctl:louvir:1997003
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    perfect versus imperfect competition in the labor market; heterogeneous versus homogeneous workers;

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