Wage Dispersion: Why Are Similar Workers Paid Differently?

By Dale T. Mortensen. 2003

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Public Administration

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Citations in the corpus

• Firm Dynamics, Job Turnover, and Wage Distributions in an Open Economy (2016, unknown): “Finally, while observable worker characteristics do matter for wage differentials, much is attributable to labor market frictions and firm heterogeneity (Abowd, Kramarz, and Margolis 1999; Mortensen 2003; Helpman et al. 2012).”
• Job Referral Networks and the Determination of Earnings in Local Labor Markets (2014, background): “In a market with search frictions, two workers can receive different pay simply because they work in different firms (Abowd et al. 1999; Mortensen 2003).”
• RETHINKING MACROECONOMICS: WHAT FAILED, AND HOW TO REPAIR IT (2011, background): “See for example Stiglitz 1975, 1985b, 1987b; Salop and Stiglitz 1977, 1982; Dasgupta and Maskin 1986a, 1986b; Mortenson 2010. partly the result of irrational exuberance, often following the occurrence of a major innovation.”
• Frictional Wage Dispersion in Search Models: A Quantitative Assessment (2011, unknown): “See Mortensen (2005) for a discussion of why counteroffers are uncommon in actual labor markets.”
• Firms and Labor Market Inequality: Evidence and Some Theory (2018, background): “Modern search theory provides one rationale for the existence of wagesetting power (Mortensen 2005).”
• Empirical labor search models: a survey (2003, methodology): “This estimation method has since been used by a number of other studies (see e.g. Mortensen, 2003) and serves as a starting point for the development of estimation methods for more complicated equilibrium search models.”
• On-the-Job Search in a Matching Model with Heterogenous Jobs and Workers (2003, unknown): “Conditions (14)-(16), (22) and (23) fully characterise the equilibrium allocations.”
• Imperfect Competition, Compensating Differentials and Rent Sharing in the U.S. Labor Market (2019, background): “By comparison, compensating differentials have typically been analyzed in models with perfect competition or search frictions (see e.g. Mortensen, 2003).”
• The Importance of Firms in Wage Determination (2009, unknown): “Equilibrium search theory rationalizes wage differentials across firms for homogenous workers due to search frictions (Burdett and Mortensen (1998); van den Berg and Ridder (1998); Postel-Vinay and Robin (2002); Mortensen (2003)).”
• An Empirical Model of Growth Through Product Innovation (2005, unknown): “In our earlier paper, Lentz and Mortensen (2005), we establish the existence of a general equilibrium solution to the model.”
• Language Usage, Participation, Employment and Earnings - Evidence for Foreigners in West Germany with Multiple Sources of Selection (2009, unknown): “The variant of the Burdett and Mortensen (1998) model (see also Manning, 2003, Mortensen, 2003) laid out in this section provides argumentation for controlling for self-selection even if an employer pays the same wage for workers with different language abilities.”