Group Learning, Wage Dispersion and Non‐stationary Offers
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9726016 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Julio J Rotemberg (Harvard Business School, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 84 |
| Issue | 335 |
| Pages | 365-392 |
| Publication date | 2017-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Economica (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-0427 • E-ISSN: 1468-0335 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/ecca.12225 |
| OpenAlex | W2571725424 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 37 |
Can differences in equilibrium beliefs among otherwise identical individuals account for a substantial degree of wage inequality? This paper shows that this is possible if two conditions are met. First, people learn about the distribution of wage offers from the experience of their peers, and second, people believe that wage offers are stationary even though offers that arrive later tend to have higher wages than offers that arrive earlier. Peer groups can then end up with different stable beliefs that lead to intergroup wage differences. The non‐stationarity of offers is rationalized in a model where firms can either advertise their job openings or not, and where advertised ones have more influence on more inexperienced job searchers. A statistic is proposed whose application to existing studies suggests that the non‐stationarity considered here is present in data
Demographic economics · Dispersion (optics) · Distribution (mathematics) · Econometrics · Economics · Efficiency wage · Group (periodic table) · Inequality · Labour economics · Microeconomics · Statistic · Statistics · Wage · Wage dispersion · Wage Inequality · Consumer Market Behavior and Pricing · Economic theories and models · Game Theory and Applications · Mathematics
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| Highly cited | No |