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How Much Does Sorting Increase Inequality?
Kremer, Michael - 1996
Social commentators from William Julius Wilson to Charles Murray have argued that increased sorting of people into internally homogeneous" neighborhoods,schools, and marriages is spurring long-run inequality. Cali- bration of a formal model suggests that these fears are misplaced. In order to...
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Macroeconomic Adjustment with Segmented Labor Markets
Agenor, Pierre-Richard - 1994
This paper analyzes the macroeconomic effects of fiscal and labor market policies in a small open developing country. The basic framework considers an economy with a large informal production sector and a heterogeneous work force. The labor market is segmented as a result of efficiency...
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Bilateral Search as an Explanation for Labor Market Segmentation and Other Anomalies
Lang, Kevin - 1993
Since applying for jobs is costly, workers prefer applying where their employment probability is high and, therefore, to jobs attracting fewer higher quality applicants. Since creating vacancies is expensive, firms create more vacancies when job-seeking is high. Our model captures these ideas...
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Labor Market Segmentation Theory : Reconsidering the Evidence
Dickens, William T. - 1992
We argue that Labor Market Segmentation theory is a good alternative to standard views of the labor market. Since it is … sometimes argued that labor market segmentation theory is untestable, we first consider the uses of theory and the attributes of … a good theory. We then argue that labor market segmentation has these attributes. It is internally consistent and is …
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Work Incentives and the Demand for Primary and Contingent Labor
Rebitzer, James B. - 1991
This paper presents an incentive-based dual labor market model. Three implications of the model are emphasized. First, in equilibrium, there is an excess supply of workers to primary jobs. Second, when demand is uncertain, firms may choose a mix of primary and contingent workers to perform the...
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Transactions Costs and Internal Labor Markets
Rosen, Sherwin - 1987
theory as a conceptual framework for this problem. The analysis suggests that an internal labor market must be viewed in a …
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Studies in labor markets : [papers presented at the Conference on Low Income Labour Markets held at ... 9 and 10 june 1978]
Rosen, Sherwin (ed.) - 1981
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NBER International Seminar on Macroeconomics 2006
Reichlin, Lucrezia (contributor);  … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2008
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NBER International Seminar on Macroeconomics 2005
Frankel, Jeffrey A. (ed.);  … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2007
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The impact of international trade on wages
Feenstra, Robert C. (ed.) - 2000
Since the early 1980s, the U.S. economy has experienced a growing wage differential: high-skilled workers have claimed an increasing share of available income, while low-skilled workers have seen an absolute decline in real wages. How and why this disparity has arisen is a matter of ongoing...
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