Theories of Pay and Unemployment: Survey Evidence from Swedish Manufacturing Firms
An interview survey was designed to explore how personnel managers and senior wage negotiators respond to popular models of the labor market. As in A. S. Blinder and D. H. Choi (1990), the authors' results indicate that relative wages and notions of fairness are important, and that this may explain nominal wage rigidity. The authors find much evidence of efficiency wage mechanisms. The reactions to some questions also point to theories based on rent-sharing. Moreover, while underbidding is not that uncommon, firms seem quite unwilling to hire underbidders. The authors also obtain indications of adverse selection problems. Copyright 1995 by The editors of the Scandinavian Journal of Economics.
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| Length: | 45 pages |
| Date of creation: | Apr 1993 |
| Handle: | RePEc:hhs:iuiwop:0380 |
| Contact details of provider: | Postal: Research Institute of Industrial Economics, Box 55665, SE-102 15 Stockholm, Sweden Phone: +46 8 665 4500 Fax: +46 8 665 4599 Web page: http://www.ifn.se/ Email: More information through EDIRC
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