Equilibrium Wage Dispersion : An Example.

Search models with posting and match-specific heterogeneity generate wage dispersion. Given K values for the match-specific variable, it is known that there are K reservation wages that could be posted, but generically never more than two actually are posted in equilibrium. What is unknown is when w...

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Autor Corporativo: International Monetary Fund
Formato: Periódico
Idioma:English
Publicado em: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2006.
coleção:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2006/019
Acesso em linha:Full text available on IMF
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Resumo:Search models with posting and match-specific heterogeneity generate wage dispersion. Given K values for the match-specific variable, it is known that there are K reservation wages that could be posted, but generically never more than two actually are posted in equilibrium. What is unknown is when we get two wages, and which wages are actually posted. For an example with K equal to 3, we show equilibrium is unique; may have one wage or two; and when there are two, the equilibrium can display any combination of posted reservation wages, depending on parameters. We also show how wages, profits, and unemployment depend on productivity.
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