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A theory is developed of labor migration that is prompted by a desire to avoid "social humiliation." In a general equilibrium framework it is shown that as long as migration can reduce humiliation sufficiently, migration will occur even between two identical economies. Migration increases the...
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Drawing on the literature of occupational status and social distance, a theory is developed of labor migration that is prompted by a desire to avoid “social humiliation.” A closed-economy general equilibrium model that incorporates occupational status and examines the interaction between the...
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workers are (i.e. the more their wages rise with employment duration), the more effective will unemployment vouchers be …
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sector). The book examines the effects of insiders' activities on wages, employment, and unemployment; discusses the …
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Do firms reduce employment when their insiders (established, incumbent employees) claim higher wages? The conventional … employees (entrants) receive their reservation wages. The reason given is that an increase in insider wages gives rise to a … counterveiling fall in reservation wages, leaving the present value of wage costs unchanged. Our analysis contradicts this …
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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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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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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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