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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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Wages, Length of Relationship and Bargaining Power:An experimental study in a world of complete contracts

Dittrich, Dennis A. V. - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2004

To explain potential sources of wage rigidity this article analyzes a model of reciprocalkindness applied to a repeated ultimatum game with changing and nonzeroconflict payoffs. The model is also tested in a laboratory experiment. The resultsare compatible with the rentsharingapproach to wage...

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How urbanization affects employment and social interactions

Satō, Yasuhiro; Zenou, Yves - 2014

We develop a model where the unemployed workers in the city can find a job either directly or through weak or strong ties. We show that, in denser areas, individuals choose to interact with more people and meet more random encounters (weak ties) than in sparsely populated areas. We also...

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Urban spatial structure, employment and social ties : European versus American cities

Picard, Pierre M.; Zenou, Yves - 2015

We develop a model where workers both choose their residential location (geographical space) and their social interactions (social space). In equilibrium, we show under which condition some individuals reside close to the job center while others live far away from it. Even though the two...

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Labor Market Pooling and Human Capital Investment Decisions

Amend, Elke; Herbst, Patrick - 2009

Labor market pooling is considered one of the advantages of agglomerations. This paper presents a model of human capital formation in an imperfectly competitive, pooled local labor market with heterogeneous workers and firms. Firms produce with different technologies requiring diverse skills....

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Labor market pooling and human capital investment decisions

Amend, Elke; Herbst, Patrick - 2008

Dass Arbeitsmarkt-Pooling einer der Vorteile von Ballungsräumen ist, ist zwar empirisch belegt, theoretisch jedoch nur gering fundiert. Der Beitrag stellt ein Modell der Humankapitalbildung in einem imperfekten kompetitiven gepoolten Arbeitsmarkt mit heterogenen Arbeitskräften und Unternehmen...

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Institutions, Bargaining Power and Labor Shares

Bental, Benjamin; Demougin, Dominique - Sonderforschungsbereich Ökonomisches Risiko <Berlin> - 2006

We use a static framework characterized by both moral hazard and holdup problems. In the model the optimal allocation of bargaining power balances these frictions. We examine the impact of improved monitoring on that optimal allocation and its impact upon effort, investment, profits and rents....

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Employment and distribution effects of the minimum wage

Slonimczyk, Fabián; Skott, Peter - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 84 (2012) 1, pp. 245-264

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Why should Southern economies stay in the Euro Zone? : The role of labor markets

Barbier-Gauchard, Amélie; De Palma, Francesco; Diana, … - In: Economic modelling 43 (2014), pp. 201-208

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Does effeciency wage hypothesis hold in Tanzanian labour market?

Kahyarara, Godius - In: The Botswana journal of economics : the journal of the … 12 (2014) 1, pp. 27-44

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