Sherwin Rosen

Kenneth J. McLaughlin ()
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Kenneth J. McLaughlin: Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY, http://econ.hunter.cuny.edu/faculty/economics-faculty/kenneth-j-mclaughlin/

No 450, Economics Working Paper Archive at Hunter College from Hunter College Department of Economics

Abstract: This paper provides a critical survey of Sherwin Rosen’s contributions to economics. I identify the ideas that influenced him and the themes—diversity and inequality—that connect his papers. The model of compensating price differentials (Rosen 1974) is his greatest hit. The more general “equalizing differences” approach was a signature feature of his research in labor economics and other fields. I also evaluate the merits of Rosen (1979), through which he receives credit for the influential Roback-Rosen model in urban economics. And several of his most influential papers substantiate my claim that Rosen was an inequality economist.

Keywords: Compensating Differentials; Labor Economics; Equalizing differences; inequality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B2 J3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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