• Medientyp: E-Artikel
  • Titel: The causes and economic consequences of envy
  • Beteiligte: Cabrales, Antonio [Verfasser:in]
  • Erschienen: Heidelberg: Springer, 2010
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13209-010-0028-1
  • ISSN: 1869-4195
  • Schlagwörter: skill segregation ; wage dynamics ; J33 ; D63 ; E24 ; J31 ; interdependent preferences ; wage dispersion ; J41 ; internal labor market ; envy ; recursive contracts
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  • Beschreibung: In this lecture I first give an explanation for invidious preferences based on the (evolutionary) competition for resources. Then I show that these preferences have wide ranging and empirically relevant effects on labor markets, such as: workplace skill segregation, gradual promotions, wage increases that have no relation with productivity and downward wage flexibility. I suggest that labor and human resource economics can benefit from including envy into the standard set of factors considered in their theoretical and empirical models.
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