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The causes and economic consequences of envy

Cabrales, Antonio - In: SERIEs - Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 1 (2010) 4, pp. 371-386

flexibility. I suggest that labor and human resource economics can benefit from including envy into the standard set of factors …

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Social preferences and skill segregation

Cabrales, Antonio; Calvó, Antoni - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2002

This paper shows that models where preferences of individuals depend not only on their allocations, but also on the well-being of other persons, can produce both large and testable effects. We study the allocation of workers with heterogeneous productivities to firms. We show that even small...

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Social Preferences, Skill Segregation, and Wage Dynamics

Cabrales, Antonio; Calvo-Armengol, Antoni; Pavoni, Nicola - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2005

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Will Joe the plumber envy Bill Gates? : the impact of unflattering social comparisons on individual satisfaction and behaviour

Celse, Jérémy - In: Revue d'économie politique 126 (2016) 2, pp. 257-284

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Present-biased envy, inequality, and growth

Borissov, Kirill; Pakhnin, Mikhail; Wendner, Ronald - 2024

We take into account that envy (relative consumption concerns) is more pronounced in the present than in the future. We … exogenous parameters. Agents' preferences exhibit present-biased envy: agents are naive and care about how their consumption … levels compare to that of others in the current period. Our results suggest that present-biased envy affects both the level …

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Wage dispersion and wage dynamics within and across firms

Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos; Smith, Eric - 2009

This paper examines wage dispersion and wage dynamics in a stock-flow matching economy with on-the-job search. Under stock-flow matching, job seekers immediately become fully informed about the stock of viable vacancies. If only one option is available, monopsony wages result. With more than one...

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