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Flatter Wage Profiles and Reduced Lifetime Employment: A Simple Formalization

In: The Changing Japanese Labor Market

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  • Akiomi Kitagawa

    (Tohoku University)

  • Souichi Ohta

    (Keio University)

  • Hiroshi Teruyama

    (Kyoto University)

Abstract

This chapter explores the implications of possible bankruptcies of firms for their own wage schemes and the structure of labor market, using a two-period general equilibrium model. The bankruptcy risk flattens a wage profile of each firm, weakening its incentive effect, thereby making room for efficiency wage to be used as a supplementary incentive device. The use of the efficiency wage, in turn, stratifies the labor market into the primary one, in which job rationing is observed, and the secondary one, in which job rationing is not observed. Substantial utility differential emerges between those who have luckily found a job in the primary market and those who have not, although there is no difference in their innate abilities. This differential widens, as bankruptcies become more likely. Moreover, the dual structure of the labor market and the entry decisions of firms render the employment size in the primary market too small to attain a social optimum.

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  • Akiomi Kitagawa & Souichi Ohta & Hiroshi Teruyama, 2018. "Flatter Wage Profiles and Reduced Lifetime Employment: A Simple Formalization," Advances in Japanese Business and Economics, in: The Changing Japanese Labor Market, chapter 0, pages 37-63, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:advchp:978-981-10-7158-4_2
    DOI: 10.1007/978-981-10-7158-4_2
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