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Are Shirking and Leisure Substitutable? An Empirical Test of Efficiency Wages Based on Urban Economic Theory

Ross, Stephen L.; Zenou, Yves - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008

allow for behavioral substitution between leisure time at home and effort at work. In equilibrium, residing at a location … with a long commute affects the time available for leisure at home and therefore affects the trade-off between effort at … wages, which are both consistent with shirking and leisure being substitutable. …

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Efficiency Wages, Urban Unemployment and Housing Consumption

Zenou, Yves - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2003

The aim of this paper is to introduce endogenous housing consumption in an efficiency wage model in which two cases are considered: very high and zero relocation costs. First, in both cases, we are able to totally characterize the efficiency wage for any preferences that are quasi-linear with...

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City Structure, Job Search, and Labor Discrimination. Theory and Policy Implications

Selod, Harris; Zenou, Yves - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2004

We consider a search-matching model in which black workers are discriminated against and the job arrival rates of all workers depend on social networks as well as distance to jobs. Location choices are driven by the racial preferences of households (both blacks and whites) consciously choosing...

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Endogenous Job Destruction and Job Matching in Cities

Zenou, Yves - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008

We propose a spatial search-matching model where both job creation and job destruction are endogenous. Workers are ex ante identical but not ex post since their job can be hit by a technological shock, which decreases their productivity. They reside in a city and commuting to the job center...

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Equilibrium Search Unemployment with Explicit Spatial Frictions

Wasmer, Etienne; Zenou, Yves - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2004

Assuming that job search efficiency decreases with distance to jobs, workers' location in a city depends on spatial elements such as commuting costs and land prices and on labour elements such as wages and the matching technology. In the absence of moving costs, we show that there exists a...

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Manager's Incentives and Individual Wealth

Gaumont, D.; Merlateau, M.P. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1993

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Social Interactions and Labor Market Outcomes in Cities

Zenou, Yves - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008

We develop a model where information about jobs is essentially obtained through friends and relatives, i.e. strong and weak ties. Workers commute to a business center to work and to interact with other people. We find that housing prices increase with the level of social interactions in the city...

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Racial Beliefs, Location and the Causes of Crime

Verdier, Thierry; Zenou, Yves - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2003

This paper provides a unified explanation for why blacks commit more crime, are located in poorer neighborhoods and receive lower wages than whites. If everybody believes that blacks are more criminal than whites - even if there is no basis for this - then blacks are offered lower wages and, as...

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Crime, Location and the Housing Market

Zenou, Yves - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2005

We highlight the role of commuting cost, location and housing market in crime decision. By assuming that all crimes are committed in the central business district and that criminals create both positive and negative externalities to each other, we find that high wages or large levels of police...

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Retail City: The Relationship between Place Attractiveness and Accessibility to Shops

Öner, Özge - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2015

This paper explores the role of retailers as an urban amenity. Using data for Swedish rural and city municipalities for 2002–2008, ‘accessibility to shops’ measures are constructed for the shops in the municipalities and in the hosting regions separately to examine the relationship between...

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