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Aversion to Inequality and Segregating Equilibria
Cabrales Goitia, Cabrales Goitia Antonio; … - Fundación BBVA - 2007
This working 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 to firms of workers with heterogeneous productivities to firms. We show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008685256
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Aversion to Inequality and Segregating Equilibria
Cabrales, Antonio; Calvó-Armengol, Antoni - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2005
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010547201
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005772383
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Social Preferences, Skill Segregation, and Wage Dynamics
Cabrales, Antonio; Calvo-Armengol, Antoni; Pavoni, Nicola - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004977951
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Wage Dispersion and Wage Dynamics Within and Across Firms
Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos; Smith, Eric - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822734
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Permanent versus Transitory Wage Differentials and the Inequality-Hours Hypothesis
Gustavsson, Magnus - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2013
This paper disentangles the effect of inequality in permanent and transitory wages on hours worked by, first, estimating the two components for Swedish industries and, second, using the resulting estimates as explanatory variables in an hours-worked equation. Consistent with Bell and Freeman’s...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010702044
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268976
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292209
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014528209
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Inequality Aversion and Performance in and on the Field
Torgler, Benno; Schaffner, Markus; Frey, Bruno S.; … - Center for Research in Economics, Management and the … - 2008
The experimental literature and studies using survey data have established that people care a great deal about their relative economic position and not solely, as standard economic theory assumes, about their absolute economic position. Individuals are concerned about social comparisons....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005226974