A way of explaining unemployment through a wage-setting game |
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Affiliation: | 1. Department of Economics, Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Chile;2. COES and DESOC, Chile;3. Urban Institute, United States;4. IZA, Germany |
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Abstract: | ![]() We investigate a duopsonistic wage-setting game in which the firms have a limited number of workplaces. We assume that the firms have heterogeneous productivity, that there are two types of workers with different reservation wages and that a worker's productivity is independent of his type. We show that equilibrium unemployment arises in the wage-setting game under certain conditions, although the efficient allocation of workers would result in full employment. |
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