and parties are risk neutral. Monitoring costs increase with inconsistency, lowering pay for inconsistent workers. If …

We estimate the changes in US male labor market risk over the last three decades in a model of endogenous labor supply … a life-cycle model with search frictions, we show that the estimated changes in risk can account for 85 percent of the … increase in within group wage inequality. The welfare costs of rising risk are small. …

One of the most stylized facts in labor economics is the finding that wages tend to rise with job duration but what is … performance and wages in the National Basketball Association (NBA) is used to test the superiority of one model over others in … wages are solely determined on the basis of their productivity. Findings are rather in accordance with shirking and matching …