The value of leisure or disutility of work: Wage dispersion in a model of search with endogenous effort

Wage dispersion is generated in a sequential search environment through heterogeneity in firm productivity along with an individual wage-effort trade-off. For a given degree of TFP dispersion, the framework can generate any amount of wage dispersion. Calibrated to generate realistic gains from trade, it is able to generate the kind of wage dispersion observed in data.

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Year of publication:	2012
Authors:	Masters, Adrian
Institutions:	University at Albany, SUNY, Department of Economics

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	Discussion Papers.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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