On-the-job search with match-specific amenities

James Albrecht, Carlos Carrillo-Tudela and Susan Vroman

Economics Letters, 2018, vol. 162, issue C, 15-17

Abstract: We construct an equilibrium on-the-job search model in which workers value wages and amenities. We show by example that in a standard (Burdett/Mortensen) model with a distribution of worker tastes over amenities, worker mobility need not imply equilibrium wage dispersion.

Keywords: On-the-job search; Amenities (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D83 J31 J64 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2017.10.013

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