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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788688303321

Titolo

Equilibrium Wage Dispersion : : An Example

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2006

ISBN

1-4623-8311-4

1-4527-4208-1

1-283-51891-0

1-4519-0815-6

9786613831361

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (16 p.)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Soggetti

Equilibrium (Economics) - Econometric models

Wages - Econometric models

Labor

Public Finance

Criminology

Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs: General

Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law

Employment

Unemployment

Wages

Intergenerational Income Distribution

Aggregate Human Capital

Aggregate Labor Productivity

National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: General

Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search

Labour

income economics

Corporate crime

white-collar crime

Public finance & taxation

Illicit financial flows

Public expenditure review

Money laundering

Economic theory

Expenditures, Public



Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"January 2006."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""I. Introduction""; ""II. The Model""; ""III. The Example""; ""IV. Conclusion""; ""References""

Sommario/riassunto

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 = 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.