Information Cascades in the Labor Market |
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Authors: | Dorothea Kübler Georg Weizsäcker |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Economics, Humboldt-University Berlin, Spandauer Str. 1, 10178 Berlin, Germany;(2) Department of Economics, Harvard Business School, Sherman Hall, Boston, MA 02163, USA |
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Abstract: | A model of herding behavior in the labor market is presented where employers receive signals with limited precision about the workers types, and can observe previous employers decisions. Both the employer and the worker can influence the signal probabilities. In particular, the employer tries to increase the precision of the signal about the workers type whereas the worker wants to get a good signal, independent of her type. In a two-period model, we derive conditions for an equilibrium in which only down-cascades occur, i.e., the second employer does not hire a worker with a bad history even if he receives a favorable private signal about the workers type, but he follows his own signal if the workers history is good. |
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Keywords: | herding labor market endogenous signal quality |
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