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from worker self-selection may not be matched by a corresponding social gain. In particular, the equilibrium incentive to …
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innovation activities. The selection of high-skill managers is more important for innovation activities. As the economy … approaches the technology frontier, selection becomes more important. As a result, countries at early stages of development … investments, but little selection. Closer to the world technology frontier, there is a switch to an innovation-based strategy with …
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We study a labour market in which firms can observe workers’ output but not their effort, and in which a worker’s productivity in a given firm depends on a worker-firm specific component, unobservable for the firm. Firms offer wage contracts that optimally trade off effort and wage costs. As...
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insurance and preferences are nonseparable. This result appears to support the conclusion of the above mentioned folk theorem …
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, equilibrium wage dispersion is necessary for the economy to approximate efficiency. Without wage dispersion, workers do not search …
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There are many well developed theories which explain why governments redistribute income. There are very few theories, however, which can explain why this redistribution often takes an inefficient form. In this paper we develop a theory of why redistribution is made inefficiently. Inefficient...
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We analyse the efficiency of the labour market outcome in a competitive search equilibrium model with endogenous …
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