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The causes and economic consequences of envy

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In this lecture I first give an explanation for invidious preferences based on the (evolutionary) competition for resources. Then I show that these preferences have wide ranging and empirically relevant effects on labor markets, such as: workplace skill segregation, gradual promotions, wage...

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An empirical measure for labor market density

Gautier, Pieter; Teulings, Coen N. - 2000

In this paper we derive a structural measure for labor market density based on the Ellison and Glasear (1997) "Index for industry concentration". This labor market density measure serves as a proxy for the number of workers that can reach a certain work area within a reasonal amount of traveling...

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Employment relations and wages : what can we learn from subjective assessments?

Lachowska, Marta - 2013

This paper studies the link between hourly wages and workers' subjective assessments of how easy it would be to find … opportunities and respondents who think they are difficult to replace receive higher wages. The results appear to be consistent with … predictions of at least three theoretical frameworks: human capital theory, search theory, and a "locus of control" model. …

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