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Note on the Determinants of Wage Dispersion

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  • Yosuke Oda

    (Graduate school of Economics, Osaka university)

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The purpose of this note is to explain theoretically the observed entire density of wages which is hump-shaped and right-skewed. I extend the model brought up by Halko et al . (2008) to introduce heterogeneity of firm fs productivity. It causes a difference in the support of wage offers, a wider (narrower) range for high (low) productivity firms. The different support roughly results in the observed wage dispersion because low wage offers are made by all firms (right-skewed), whereas high wage offers are made by only high producivity firms.

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  • Yosuke Oda, 2008. "Note on the Determinants of Wage Dispersion," Discussion Papers in Economics and Business 08-37, Osaka University, Graduate School of Economics.
    • Handle: RePEc:osk:wpaper:0837
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    Keywords

    search; matching; wage posting; wage dispersion;
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    JEL classification:

    • J31 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
    • J64 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search

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