Fixed Cost, Number of Firms, and Skill Premium: An Alternative Source for Rising Wage Inequality
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- Kurokawa, Yoshinori, 2010. "Fixed cost, number of firms, and skill premium: An alternative source for rising wage inequality," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 108(2), pages 141-144, August.
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Keywords
Fixed cost; The number of firms; Skill premium; Variety-skill complementarity;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- L51 - Industrial Organization - - Regulation and Industrial Policy - - - Economics of Regulation
- L13 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - Oligopoly and Other Imperfect Markets
- J31 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-BEC-2009-03-14 (Business Economics)
- NEP-MIC-2009-03-14 (Microeconomics)
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