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Are Shirking and Leisure Substitutable? An Empirical Test of Efficiency Wages Based on Urban Economic Theory
Ross, Stephen L. - 2014
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012751966
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Endogenous Job Destruction and Job Matching in Cities
Zenou, Yves - 2021
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317149
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Are Shirking and Leisure Substitutable?An Empirical Test of Efficiency WagesBased on Urban Economic Theory
Ross, Stephen L.; Zenou, Yves - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
allow forbehavioral substitution between leisure time at home and effort at work... …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005863255
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How Tax Progression Affects Effort and Employment
Koskela, Erkki; Schöb, Ronnie - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Within an efficiency wage framework, we study the effects of two revenue-neutral tax reformsthat change the progressivity of the labour tax system. A revenue-neutral increase in both thewage tax and tax exemption and a revenue-neutral change in the composition of labourtaxation towards the tax...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005862708
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Search, Migration, and Urban Land Use : The Case of Transportation Policies
Zenou, Yves - 2014
We develop a search-matching model with rural-urban migration and an explicit land market. Wages, job creation, urban housing prices are endogenous and we characterize the steady-state equilibrium. We then consider three different policies: a transportation policy that improves the public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013069026
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How Urbanization Affects Employment and Social Interactions
Sato, Yasuhiro - 2014
We develop a model where the unemployed workers in the city can find a job either directly or through weak or strong ties. We show that, in denser areas, individuals choose to interact with more people and meet more random encounters (weak ties) than in sparsely populated areas. We also...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013059681
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Urban Spatial Structure, Employment and Social Ties : European Versus American Cities
Picard, Pierre M. - 2015
We develop a model where workers both choose their residential location (geographical space) and their social interactions (social space). In equilibrium, we show under which condition some individuals reside close to the job center while others live far away from it. Even though the two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016322
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High Relocation Costs in Search-Matching Models : Theory and Application to Spatial Mismatch
Zenou, Yves - 2021
We develop a standard search-matching model in which mobility costs are so high that it is too costly for workers to relocate when a change in their employment status occurs. We show that, in equilibrium, wages increase with distance to jobs and commuting costs because firms need to compensate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317124
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The Todaro Paradox Revisited
Zenou, Yves - 2005
The Todaro Paradox states that policies aimed at reducing urban unemployment are bound to backfire: they will raise rather than reduce urban unemployment. The aim of this paper is to reexamine this paradox in the context of efficiency wage and search-matching models. For that, we study a policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012784075
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Spatial Versus Social Mismatch : The Strength of Weak Ties
Zenou, Yves - 2011
The aim of this paper is to provide a new mechanism based on social interactions explaining why distance to jobs can have a negative impact on workers' labor-market outcomes, especially ethnic minorities. Building on Granovetter's idea that weak ties are superior to strong ties for providing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129913