Inter-Sectorial Risk Pooling and Wage Distributions

Pascal St-Amour and Désiré Vencatachellum ()

Cahiers de recherche from Université Laval - Département d'économique

Abstract: This paper develops a model where two agents in different sectors face uncorrelated income risks and mutually self-insure. We discuss how the rent arising from risk pooling modifies the wage distribution in the sector where the employer behaves as a monopsonist.

Keywords: risk pooling; family transfers (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 O15 O17 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1998
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