Endogenous job destructions and the distribution of wages

This paper considers a matching model with both idiosyncratic productivity shocks that hit jobs at random and heterogeneity of workers according to ex ante unobservable abilities. We argue that firms' decisions about reservation productivity can help explain the shape of wage distributions. Thi...

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Volume:	18
Main Author:	Chéron, Arnaud Rouland, Bénédicte
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Zielgruppe:	Academic
Place of publication:	AMSTERDAM Elsevier B.V 01.12.2011 ELSEVIER Elsevier Elsevier Science Ltd
published in:	Labour economics Vol. 18; no. 6; pp. 845 - 852
Data of publication:	December 2011
ISSN:	0927-5371 1879-1034
EISSN:	1879-1034
Discipline:	Economics
Series:	Labour Economics
Subjects:	Matching Heterogeneity Firing Wage distribution Economics Business & Economics Social Sciences Wage distribution Matching Firing Heterogeneity Wages Analysis Studies Labor economics Productivity Employment Wage differential France Matching Heterogeneity Firing Wage distribution DISPERSION MATCHING MODEL BUSINESS CYCLES SEARCH MODEL LABOR-MARKET UNEMPLOYMENT
Online Access:	available in Bonn?
Database:	Social Sciences Citation Index Web of Science - Social Sciences Citation Index - 2011 Web of Knowledge Web of Science RePEc RePEc IDEAS CrossRef Academic OneFile (A&I only) Database information Databases - DBIS