Frictional Wage Inequality: A Puzzle?

Andreas Hornstein, Giovanni Violante and Per Krusell

No 7, 2006 Meeting Papers from Society for Economic Dynamics

Abstract: In this paper we document that "frictional wage inequality" (i.e. due to pure luck in the matching process in the labor market) is large and that both the standard McCall search model and the simplest Diamond-Mortensen-Pissarides matching model, reasonably calibrated, are strikingly unable to generate the amount of dispersion observed in the data. Next, we discuss some extensions of the model that do not work (e.g. risk-aversion) and others that are more promising (e.g. on-the-job search and heterogeneity in the value of leisure)

Keywords: wage inequality; search (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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