A Theory of Wages and Labor Demand with Intra-Firm Bargaining and Matching Frictions

A Theory of Wages and Labor Demand with Intra-Firm Bargaining and Matching Frictions
Author: Pierre Cahuc
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008
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This article provides a model of labor market equilibrium with search and within-firm strategic bargaining. We yield explicit closed form solutions with heterogeneous labor inputs and capital. The solution exhibits overemployment. We show that higher relative bargaining power for some groups of workers may lead to overemployment relative to other groups, with such other groups being underemployed instead if they have a lower relative bargaining power. Similarly, the hold-up problem between capitalists and employees does not necessarily lead to underinvestment in physical capital.

The Theory of Wages

The Theory of Wages
Author: John Hicks
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 405
Release: 1963-06-18
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1349001899

The Theory of Wage Determination

The Theory of Wage Determination
Author: International Economic Association
Publisher: London : Macmillan ; New York : St. Martin's Press, [1957, reprinted]
Total Pages: 464
Release: 1957
Genre: Wages
ISBN:

Wage dispersion in the search and matching model with intra-firm bargaining

Wage dispersion in the search and matching model with intra-firm bargaining
Author: Dale Mortensen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 24
Release: 2009
Genre: Labor market
ISBN:

Matched employer-employee data exhibits both wage and productivity dispersion across firms and suggest that a linear relationship holds between the average wage paid and a firm productivity. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that these facts can be explained by a search and matching model when firms are heterogenous with respect to productivity, are composed of many workers, and face diminishing returns to labor given the wage paid to identical workers is the solution to the Stole-Zwiebel bilateral bargaining problem. Helpman and Iskhoki (2008) show that a unique single wage (degenerate) equilibrium solution to the model exists in this environment. In this paper, I demonstrate that another equilibrium exists that can be characterized by a non-degenerate distribution of wages in which more productive firms pay more if employed workers are able to search. Generically this dispersed wage equilibrium is unique and exists if and only if firms are heterogenous with respect to factor productivity. Finally, employment is lower in the dispersed wage equilibrium than in the single wage equilibrium but this fact does not imply that welfare is higher in the single wage equilibrium.

Wage and Employment Theory

Wage and Employment Theory
Author: Sidney R. Finkel
Publisher:
Total Pages: 284
Release: 1971
Genre: Costs, Industrial
ISBN:

Textbook on the economic theory of wages and employment - covers marginal productivity theory, the concept of limitational and limitative factors, labour force as a factor of production, the role of trade unions and collective bargaining, the macro-economic analysis of wages and employment, etc. References.