Mendolicchio, Concetta; Paolini, Dimitri; Pietra, Tito - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The paper studies a two-sector economy with investments in human and physical capital and imperfect labor markets. Workers and firms endogenously select the sector they are active in, and choose the amount of their investments. To enter the high-skill sector, workers must pay a fixed cost that...