In search of a macroeconomic theory of wage determination, the agnostic reader should be puzzled by the apparent … contradiction between two influential theories. On one hand, in the standard search-matching theory with wage bargaining, hiring … overemployment or to under-employment compared with the first-best. On the other hand, in Stole and Zwiebel?s theory of intrafirm …

A search model of the labor market is augmented to include commuting time to work. The theory posits that wages are … impact of commute time on job acceptance decisions. We also use the theory to calculate the bargaining power of workers which …