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We model an environment in which individuals prefer to be in a space in which their rank is higher, be it a social space, a geographical space, a work environment, or any other comparison sphere which we refer to in this paper, and without loss of generality, as a region. When the individuals...
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implications for the market equilibrium. In the model, job offers and job destruction shocks arrive according to a Poisson process …
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poverty gradient from rural to town to city will exist as an equilibrium phenomenon. We then address the policy question and …
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Equilibrium of the extensive-form game proposed by Stole and Zwiebel (1996a) does not imply a profile of wages and profits that … Subgame Perfect Equilibrium generating a profile of wages and profits that are equal to the Shapley values. The vast applied …
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We build an equilibrium model of a small open economy with labor market frictions and imperfectly enforced regulations …
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will introduce enough new goods to avoid such a situation. In contrast, the decentralized equilibrium may involve long run …. In the latter equilibrium, capital and the number of varieties are larger than in the former, while consumption of each …, the satiated equilibrium generically survives. For some parameter values, its growth rate is positive while labor supply …
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This paper provides a novel microeconomic foundation for pecuniary human capital externalities in a labor market model of monopsonistic competition. Multiple equilibria arise because of a strategic complementarity in investment decisions
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We develop a theory of endogenous political entrenchment in a simple two-party dynamic model of income redistribution with probabilistic voting. A partially self-interested left-wing party may implement (entrenchment) policies reducing the income of its own constituency, the lower class, in...
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Interjurisdictional flows of imperfectly-mobile migrants, investment, and other productive resources result in the costly dynamic adjustment of resource stocks. This paper investigates the comparative dynamics of adjustment to changes in local fiscal policy with two imperfectly mobile productive...
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This paper argues in favor of a dynamic specification of the Mincer equation, where past observed earnings play the role of additional explanatory variable for current observed earnings. A dynamic approach offers an explanation why the return to schooling in terms of observed earnings is not...
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