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analysis indicates how the changes can segment the labour market into an expanding sector of restructured firms where wages are … rising, a contracting sector of traditional firms where wages are relatively stagnant, and an expanding pool of the …; the widening dispersion of wages within occupational, educational, and job tenure groups in the United Kingdom and the …
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unwilling to find jobs even though they are prepared to work for less than the prevailing wages of incumbent workers ("insiders … wages of the underbidders. The resulting labor turnover costs create economic rent which the insiders tap in wage …
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explored with the aid of some elements of game theory. It is shown: (a) how labour unions optimally adjust wages to prices …
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The paper constructs a simple macroeconomic model that contains a labor market in which insiders have power in wage negotiations. Wage and employment decisions are assumed to be made before business conditions are known; thus these decisions depend on both the hiring costs and expected dismissal...
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labor costs. Our analysis indicates that when wages and prices are flexible, product demand policies have no significant …
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