The Assignment of Workers to Tasks, Wage Distribution and Technical Change : A Critical Review

This paper reviews the literature on two-sided atomeless assignment models of workers to tasks. Using simple parametric examples, the fundamental differences between the comparative advantage and the scale of operations models are illustrated. Holding the distributions of abilities and tasks and the production function of worker-task pairs constant, the two principles are shown to produce different wage distributions and wage inequality...

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Year of publication:	2008-02-01
Authors:	Dupuy, Arnaud
Institutions:	Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn>
Subject:	Lohnstruktur \| wage structure \| Technische Entwicklung \| Lohndifferenzierung

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Extent:	345088 bytes 35 p. application/pdf
Series:	Universität Bonn - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit GmbH (IZA) - Discussion Papers in 2008 Discussion Paper ; 3379 (2008)
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Classification:	D3 - Distribution ; J3 - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs ; O3 - Technological Change; Research and Development ; Pay salaries and social benefits ; Individual Working Papers, Preprints ; No country specification
Source:	USB Cologne (business full texts)

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