Efficiency wages : models of unemployment, layoffs, and wage dispersion
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Efficiency wages : models of unemployment, layoffs, and wage dispersion
Clarendon Press, 1991
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Description
This overview of the principal efficiency wage models presents new results in the field. It provides models of competitive labour markets in which wages have sorting, incentive and nutritional effects. It shows how these effects can cause unemployment, a misallocation of labour and equilibrium wage distributions. Results are derived with the use of simple mathematics, motivated by economic intuition and numerical examples. Other models in which wages affect productivity are also discussed. The book is divided into two parts. Part 1 is concerned with the sorting effects of wages, or more generally wage schedules, in an economy where workers have information about their own productivity that is not available to firms. Part 2 is concerned with the direct effects of wages and wage schedules on the performance of workers, assuming that workers have private information about their own productivity.
Table of Contents
- An Introduction and Overview
- Part I Worker Heterogeneity as a Cause of Unemployment and Layoffs: Single Wage Equilibrium
- Appendix A. Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Wage Rigidity
- Unemployment with Multiple Wages
- Layoffs and Firing of Workers: An Adverse Selection Explanation
- Part II Incentive Models: An Overview of Incentive Effects of Wages
- The Effect of Wages on Turnover
- Effort Inducing Effects of Wages
- The Nutrition Model
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Description
This overview of the principal efficiency wage models presents new results in the field. It provides models of competitive labour markets in which wages have sorting, incentive and nutritional effects. It shows how these effects can cause unemployment, a misallocation of labour and equilibrium wage distributions. Results are derived with the use of simple mathematics, motivated by economic intuition and numerical examples. Other models in which wages affect productivity are also discussed. The book is divided into two parts. Part 1 is concerned with the sorting effects of wages, or more generally wage schedules, in an economy where workers have information about their own productivity that is not available to firms. Part 2 is concerned with the direct effects of wages and wage schedules on the performance of workers, assuming that workers have private information about their own productivity.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Worker heterogeneity as a cause of unemployment and layoffs: single wage equilibrium
- necessary and sufficient conditions for wage rigidity
- unemployment with multiple wages
- layoffs and firing of workers - an adverse selection explanation. Part 2 Incentive models: an overview of incentive effects of wages
- the effect of wages on turnover
- effort inducing effects of wages
- the nutrition model.
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