We consider a dual labor market with a continuum of heterogeneous Workers differentiated by their ability of aquiring a specific skill. In the primary sector, jobs require firm specific training and firm set eficiency wages. In the secondary sector, wages are competitive and no training is required.

We consider a continuum of unemployed workers ranked according to their unemployment duration. There are two industries, a high and a low technology one, which compete imperfectly on the labor market. Once employed, each individual must bear a training cost, which is proportional to his...

The author studies the role of unemployment in the context of the endogenous formation of a monocentric city where firms set efficiency wages to deter shirking.

We present a model that focuses on the links between location and educational choices in South African cities. By comparing the Apartheid city (in which both chooling and land use are restricted on the basis of race) and the post-Apartheid city (in which there no such restrictions), we show that...

This paper focuses on the role of social interactions in the location decision of workers and on the consequences of this decision on labor market outcomes. More precisely, there are three categories of workers: whites, the ethnic minority workers who try to abide as much as they can by the...