Hornstein, Andreas; Krusell, Per; Violante, Giovanni L. - In: American Economic Review 101 (2011) 7, pp. 2873-98
We propose a new measure of frictional wage dispersion: the mean-min wage ratio. For a large class of search models, we show that this measure is independent of the wage-offer distribution but depends on statistics of labor-market turnover and on preferences. Under plausible preference...