A contracts-based model of the provision of training and employment with overlapping generations of workers is developed. Attention is focused on the role of the imperfect capital markets in the determination of contracts and on intertemporal variations in the levels of training and employment,...

In this paper we derive the equilibrium level of redistribution from one mobile factor (say, the rich or capital) to another possibly mobile factor (say, the poor or labour) when regions choose both their inter-regional transfers and redistributive policies non-cooperatively.