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Shirking, Commuting and Labor Market Outcomes

Ross, Stephen L.; Zenou, Yves - 2004

allow for behavioral substitution between leisure time at home and effort at work. In equilibrium, residing at a location … with a long commute affects the time available for leisure at home and therefore affects the trade-off between effort at … shirking and leisure are complementary with the marginal benefit of shirking increasing with an individual's net time endowment. …

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Are Shirking and Leisure Substitutable? An Empirical Test of Efficiency Wages Based on Urban Economic Theory

Ross, Stephen L.; Zenou, Yves - 2008

allow for behavioral substitution between leisure time at home and effort at work. In equilibrium, residing at a location … with a long commute affects the time available for leisure at home and therefore affects the trade-off between effort at … wages, which are both consistent with shirking and leisure being substitutable. …

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How Do Firms Redline Workers?

Zenou, Yves - 2002

In a city where individuals endogenously choose their residential location, firms determine their spatial efficiency wage and a geographical red line beyond which they do not recruit workers. This is because workers experiencing longer commuting trips provide lower effort levels than those...

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Spatial Mismatch: From the Hypothesis to the Theories

Selod, Harris; Gobillon, Laurent; Zenou, Yves - 2003

Since the 1950s, there has been a steady decentralization of entry-level jobs towards the suburbs of American cities, while racial minorities ?and particularly blacks? have remained in city centers. In this context, the spatial mismatch hypothesis argues that because the residential locations of...

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Unemployment and indeterminacy

Nakajima, Tomoyuki - 2003

Using an efficiency-wage model, we examine the relationship between indeterminacy and unemployment insurance. It is shown that the less unemployment insurance is, the more likely equilibrium is to be indeterminate. Equilibrium can be indeterminate even without externalities or increasing...

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The Impact of Product Market Competition on Employment and Wages

Amable, Bruno; Gatti, Donatella - 2001

Standard economic wisdom generally stresses the benefits of increased competition on the product market. This paper proposes a model of monopolistic competition with an endogenous determination of workers flows in and out of unemployment, where wages are determined according to an efficiency...

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Fairness and Freight-Handlers : Local Labor-Market Conditions and Wage-Fairness Perceptions in a Trucking Firm

Verhoogen, Eric A.; Burks, Stephen V.; Carpenter, Jeffrey P. - 2004

This paper draws on evidence from an internal attitude survey in the freight-handling terminals of a unionized trucking firm to investigate the effect of local labor market conditions on employee wage-fairness perceptions. The key element of our research design is that local managers have no...

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Is perfection optimal? Employment and product market competition

Amable, Bruno; Gatti, Donatella - 2000

This paper proposes a model of efficiency wage with endogenous workers flows in interaction with imperfect competition on the product markets. Subject to economy-wide shocks, firms hire and fire workers thus generating a certain turnover. We show that the intensity of this turnover negatively...

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In Search of Workers' Real Effort Reciprocity - A Field and a Laboratory Experiment

Hennig-Schmidt, Heike; Rockenbach, Bettina; Sadrieh, … - 2008

updated version of paper no 55

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In Search of Workers' Real Effort Reciprocity - A Field and a Laboratory Experiment

Hennig-Schmidt, Heike; Rockenbach, Bettina; Sadrieh, … - 2005

We present a field experiment to assess the effect of own and peer wage variations on actual work effort of employees with hourly wages. Work effort neither reacts to an increase of the own wage, nor to a positive or negative peer comparison. This result seems at odds with numerous laboratory...

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