Compensating Wage Differentials in Stable Job Matching Equilibrium

Seungjin Han and Shintaro Yamaguchi

Global COE Hi-Stat Discussion Paper Series from Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University

Abstract: This paper studies implicit pricing of non-wage job characteristics in the labour market using a two-sided matching model. It departs from the previous literature by allowing worker heterogeneity in productivity, which gives rise to a double transaction problem in a hedonic model. Deriving sufficient conditions under which assortative matching is the unique stable job-worker matching, we show that observed wage differentials between jobs reflect not only compensating wage differentials, but also worker productivity gaps between the jobs. We find that the job-worker matching pattern determines the extent to which compensating wage differentials are confounded with the worker productivity gap effect.

Keywords: hedonic model; heterogeneity; two-sided matching; matching pattern; wage differential; equalizing difference; worker productivity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C78 J31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013-03
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-gth, nep-lab and nep-lma
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